November 7
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in "Harper's Weekly" magazine.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
1940 - Washington state's original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1966 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
1967 - Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, the nation's first elected Black governor.
2000 - The American electorate went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore for the presidency. The outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
2011 - A jury in Los Angeles convicted Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, of involuntary manslaughter for supplying a powerful anesthetic implicated in the entertainer's 2009 death. (Murray was sentenced to four years in prison. He served two years and was released in October 2013.)
2020 - Democrat Joe Biden clinched victory over President Donald Trump as a win in Pennsylvania pushed Biden over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes to become the nation's 46th president.
Birthdays
24 - Dara Renee (actress)
24 - Jordyn Lucas (actress)
28 - Lorde (singer)
31 - Ronen Rubinstein (actor)
36 - Elsa Hosk (model)
41 - Adam DeVine (actor)
51 - Yunjin Kim (actress)
52 - Jason London (actor)
67 - Christopher Knight (actor)
72 - David Petraeus (retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director)
81 - Joni Mitchell (singer)
82 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
86 - Jim Kaat (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturned the state's "blue law," which had prohibited sports being played on Sundays.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the NFL's last scoreless tie game.
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
1964 - The National League orders the Braves to stay in Milwaukee for the 1965 season and may move to Atlanta in 1966.
1965 - Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1968 - Red Berenson (St. Louis Blues) scored 6 goals in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blues won the game 8-0.
1973 - New Jersey became the first state to allow girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers announced he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring from the game.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight PGA tournaments.
2009 - Jerry Sloan becomes the first coach in NBA history to win 1,000 games with one team after leading the Utah Jazz to victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in "Harper's Weekly" magazine.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
1940 - Washington state's original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1966 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
1967 - Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, the nation's first elected Black governor.
2000 - The American electorate went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore for the presidency. The outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
2011 - A jury in Los Angeles convicted Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray, of involuntary manslaughter for supplying a powerful anesthetic implicated in the entertainer's 2009 death. (Murray was sentenced to four years in prison. He served two years and was released in October 2013.)
2020 - Democrat Joe Biden clinched victory over President Donald Trump as a win in Pennsylvania pushed Biden over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes to become the nation's 46th president.
Birthdays
24 - Dara Renee (actress)
24 - Jordyn Lucas (actress)
28 - Lorde (singer)
31 - Ronen Rubinstein (actor)
36 - Elsa Hosk (model)
41 - Adam DeVine (actor)
51 - Yunjin Kim (actress)
52 - Jason London (actor)
67 - Christopher Knight (actor)
72 - David Petraeus (retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director)
81 - Joni Mitchell (singer)
82 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
86 - Jim Kaat (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturned the state's "blue law," which had prohibited sports being played on Sundays.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the NFL's last scoreless tie game.
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
1964 - The National League orders the Braves to stay in Milwaukee for the 1965 season and may move to Atlanta in 1966.
1965 - Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1968 - Red Berenson (St. Louis Blues) scored 6 goals in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blues won the game 8-0.
1973 - New Jersey became the first state to allow girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers announced he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring from the game.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight PGA tournaments.
2009 - Jerry Sloan becomes the first coach in NBA history to win 1,000 games with one team after leading the Utah Jazz to victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
