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Events from History on November 07

1512 : Medici's discharge Niccol• Machiavelli from Florence
1519 : University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1558 : French king Henri II occupies Calais
1581 : Queen Elizabeth I & Fran‡ois of Anjou wed
1597 : Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal
1631 : Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 : Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
1651 : King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age
1659 : Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
1665 : 1st edition of "London Gazette"
1667 : Jean Racines "Andromaque," premieres in Paris
1722 : Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London
1733 : France & Spain sign Escoriaal Treaty
1747 : Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
1775 : Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1794 : French troops conquer Nijmegen
1805 : Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
1811 : Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
1814 : 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
1820 : James Monroe elected 5th US president
1824 : St Petersburg flood
1831 : State Gran Colombia disbands
1848 : General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US
1861 : Battle of Belmont, MO
1861 : Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
1863 : Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
1864 : 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1865 : London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
1872 : Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
1872 : US cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from NY on a journey which ended
1872 : when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month
1874 : 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast
1875 : Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 : Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in US college (Yale)
1876 : Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 : Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory
1876 : Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1885 : Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1893 : State Colorado accept female suffrage
1907 : Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1907 : Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
1908 : Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1909 : Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama
1914 : Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1915 : Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1916 : Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1916 : Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected 1st woman Representative
1916 : Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
1917 : British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks
1917 : October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
1918 : Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 : United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1918 : Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd
1919 : US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1921 : Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC
1925 : Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1928 : Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
1929 : Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)
1931 : Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1932 : 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
1933 : Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1934 : Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1936 : Battle of Madrid begins
1940 : Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1940 : Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1941 : British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
1942 : 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1944 : FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 : Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1946 : "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1949 : King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950 : Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan
1950 : French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
1951 : Constitution of Jordan passes
1953 : WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 : & win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
1954 : Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns
1954 : US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1955 : Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas
1957 : Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 : WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1960 : KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1961 : France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 : Richard Nixon quits politics-You won't have Nixon to kick around
1963 : Carole Joan Crawford, 20,, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World
1963 : NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1964 : NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1966 : Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in NYC
1966 : Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1967 : Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 : LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 : Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary Indiana
1967 : St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 : Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1968 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 : John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK
1970 : "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 : Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 : Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 : NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 : US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
1975 : Harvard College discovers asteroid #2198 Ceplecha
1975 : Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1976 : "Gone With the Wind" televised
1978 : Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 : CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1978 : S J Bus discovers asteroid #3240 Laocoon
1979 : Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1981 : France performs nuclear test
1982 : "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin NYC after 69 perfs
1982 : Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1982 : Turkey adopts constitution
1983 : Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1984 : STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 : Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogot 's Palace of Justice
1987 : Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1988 : Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
1988 : T Hioki & N Kawasato discover asteroid #7568
1989 : Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va)
1989 : NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
1990 : "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1990 : "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1990 : Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 : "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991 : "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box NYC
1991 : Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
1993 : R H McNaught discovers asteroid #7350
1995 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1995 : Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)
1996 : "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1997 : "Bean" opens in US

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