November 7
1861 - Former U.S. President John Tyler was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives (however, Tyler died before he could take his seat).
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893 - Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
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.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 - Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act.
1980 - Actor Steve McQueen died in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, at age 50.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected the governor of Virginia, the first African American governor in U.S. history.
1998 - House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. (The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida.)
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first former first lady to win public office.
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.
2006 - Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.
2009 - The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
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.)
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.
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.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California, before apparently taking his own life as officers closed in; the victims included a man who had survived the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas.
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; the victory followed more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in ballots. Trump refused to concede, threatening further legal action on ballot counting. In a victory speech delivered near his Delaware home, Biden offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify.” Addressing the nation as the first woman to be elected vice president, Kamala Harris paid tribute to the women – particularly Black women – who helped pave the way for her.
Birthdays
22 - Dara Renee (actress)
25 - Lorde (singer)
33 - Elsa Hosk (model)
36 - Lucas Neff (actor)
38 - Adam DeVine (actor)
49 - Jeremy London (actor)
49 - Jason London (actor)
49 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
52 - Michelle Clunie (actress)
54 - Julie Pinson (actress)
64 - Christopher Knight (actor)
79 - Jean Shrimpton (model)
79 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
81 - Dakin Matthews (actor)
83 - Barry Newman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
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 U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2011 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier died in Philadelphia at age 67.
2017 - Former star baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died when the small private plane he was flying crashed into the Gulf of Mexico; the 40-year-old was an eight-time All-Star for the Blue Jays and Phillies.
1861 - Former U.S. President John Tyler was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives (however, Tyler died before he could take his seat).
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893 - Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
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.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 - Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act.
1980 - Actor Steve McQueen died in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, at age 50.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected the governor of Virginia, the first African American governor in U.S. history.
1998 - House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. (The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida.)
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first former first lady to win public office.
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.
2006 - Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.
2009 - The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
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.)
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.
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.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California, before apparently taking his own life as officers closed in; the victims included a man who had survived the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas.
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; the victory followed more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in ballots. Trump refused to concede, threatening further legal action on ballot counting. In a victory speech delivered near his Delaware home, Biden offered himself to the nation as a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify.” Addressing the nation as the first woman to be elected vice president, Kamala Harris paid tribute to the women – particularly Black women – who helped pave the way for her.
Birthdays
22 - Dara Renee (actress)
25 - Lorde (singer)
33 - Elsa Hosk (model)
36 - Lucas Neff (actor)
38 - Adam DeVine (actor)
49 - Jeremy London (actor)
49 - Jason London (actor)
49 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
52 - Michelle Clunie (actress)
54 - Julie Pinson (actress)
64 - Christopher Knight (actor)
79 - Jean Shrimpton (model)
79 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
81 - Dakin Matthews (actor)
83 - Barry Newman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
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 U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2011 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier died in Philadelphia at age 67.
2017 - Former star baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died when the small private plane he was flying crashed into the Gulf of Mexico; the 40-year-old was an eight-time All-Star for the Blue Jays and Phillies.