November 7

680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.

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, France.

1504 – Christopher Columbus returns to Sanlúcar, Spain from his fourth and last voyage.

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, offering freedom to slaves who abandon their colonial masters and fight with Murray and the British.

1811 – North of present day Lafayette, Indiana, near the convergence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers, U.S. forces under the command of William Henry Harrison repulse an attack by Shawnee warriors and continue on to drive them from their settlement.

1861 – At Belmont, Missouri, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements under Gen. Leonidas Polk arrive.

1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly magazine, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.

1893 – Women in the state of Colorado are granted the right to vote

1910 – The first air freight shipment, from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to Congress.
Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President.
Boston Elevated Railway Company’s streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, and plunging into the Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.

1917 – красный октябрь – Red October – Bolsheviks storm the Russian Imperial Winter Palace in St Petersburg, beginning the Russian Communist Revolution. Due to the Russians having not changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar at the time, the commies use the date of 25 October.

1919 – The first anti-communist/radical raid by U.S. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.

1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, 4 months after the bridge’s completion.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for a record 4th term as President of the United States.

1957 – A report titled Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age submitted to the National Security Council by the chairman of the Office of Defense Mobilization, H. Rowan Gaither, calls for a strengthening of US missile technology, along with offensive and defensive military capabilities.

1967 –President Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1972 – President Richard Nixon is re-elected as President of the United States.

1973 – Congress overrides President Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

1983 – A bomb set by the Resistance Conspiracy of the May 19th Communist Order, explodes inside the United States Capitol causing only building damage.

1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.

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.

2004 – U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq.

2016 – Janet Reno dies after a long illness of Parkinson’s disease

2020 – Joe Biden is reported to have been elected the 46th president of the United States.