Events on November 7 62
Year 335
Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
Year 921
Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia), to recognize their borders along the Rhine.
Year 1426
Lam Sơn uprising: Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động - Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi.
Year 1492
The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
Year 1775
John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
Year 1786
The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
Year 1811
Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
Year 1837
In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
Year 1861
American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
Year 1874
A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
Year 1885
The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
Year 1893
Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
Year 1900
Second Boer War:Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Year 1907
Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
Year 1908
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
Year 1910
The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Year 1912
The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Year 1913
The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
Year 1914
The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
Year 1916
Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.[1]
Year 1917
The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
Year 1917
World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
Year 1918
The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
Year 1919
The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.
Year 1920
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
Year 1931
The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
Year 1940
In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
Year 1941
World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
Year 1944
Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
Year 1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
Year 1949
The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
Year 1956
Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
Year 1957
Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
Year 1967
Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
Year 1967
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Year 1973
The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
Year 1975
In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
Year 1983
United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
Year 1987
In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Year 1989
Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
Year 1989
David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
Year 1989
East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
Year 1990
Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
Year 1994
WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
Year 2000
Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
Year 2000
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
Year 2004
Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Year 2007
Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.