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 won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 - 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 American city.
1972 - President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress overrode President Richard Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive’s power to wage war without congressional approval.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, becoming the nation's first black governor.
2000 - Americans went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore for president; the outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
2001 - The Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden’s multi-million-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.
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.)
2012 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake killed at least 52 people in western Guatemala.
2013 - Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social network was valued at $31 billion. (The company would go private again in October 2022 after Elon Musk purchased it for $44 billion.)
2015 - The leaders of China and Taiwan met for the first time since the formerly bitter Cold War foes split amid civil war 66 years earlier; Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou hailed the meeting in Singapore as a sign of a new stability in relations.
2017 - Twitter said it was ending its 140-character limit on tweets that had defined the social media outlet for its first decade, and would allow nearly everyone 280 characters to get their message across.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California, before taking his own life as officers closed in.
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. Trump refused to concede.
Birthdays
23 - Dara Renee (actress)
27 - Lorde (singer)
35 - Elsa Hosk (model)
38 - Lucas Neff (actor)
40 - Adam DeVine (actor)
51 - Jeremy London (actor)
51 - Jason London (actor)
51 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
54 - Michelle Clunie (actress)
56 - Julie Pinson (actress)
66 - Christopher Knight (actor)
81 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
83 - Dakin Matthews (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1936 - The New York Americans beat Toronto in the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a hockey game in Canada.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the final scoreless tie in the NFL.
1965 - Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV, and was retiring.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
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 won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 - 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 American city.
1972 - President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress overrode President Richard Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive’s power to wage war without congressional approval.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, becoming the nation's first black governor.
2000 - Americans went to the polls to choose between George W. Bush and Al Gore for president; the outcome wouldn't be known for more than a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
2001 - The Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden’s multi-million-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.
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.)
2012 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake killed at least 52 people in western Guatemala.
2013 - Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social network was valued at $31 billion. (The company would go private again in October 2022 after Elon Musk purchased it for $44 billion.)
2015 - The leaders of China and Taiwan met for the first time since the formerly bitter Cold War foes split amid civil war 66 years earlier; Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou hailed the meeting in Singapore as a sign of a new stability in relations.
2017 - Twitter said it was ending its 140-character limit on tweets that had defined the social media outlet for its first decade, and would allow nearly everyone 280 characters to get their message across.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California, before taking his own life as officers closed in.
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. Trump refused to concede.
Birthdays
23 - Dara Renee (actress)
27 - Lorde (singer)
35 - Elsa Hosk (model)
38 - Lucas Neff (actor)
40 - Adam DeVine (actor)
51 - Jeremy London (actor)
51 - Jason London (actor)
51 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
54 - Michelle Clunie (actress)
56 - Julie Pinson (actress)
66 - Christopher Knight (actor)
81 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
83 - Dakin Matthews (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1936 - The New York Americans beat Toronto in the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a hockey game in Canada.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the final scoreless tie in the NFL.
1965 - Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV, and was retiring.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
