November 7
1811 - U.S. forces led by Indiana Territory Gov. William Henry Harrison defeated warriors from Tecumseh's Confederacy in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1848 - Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Democrat Lewis Cass and former President Martin Van Buren of the Free Soil Party for the presidency.
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1876 - Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.
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 in chemistry 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 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson won a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Charles Evan Hughes.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
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."
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 U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard Nixon was re-elected to a second term 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, the nation's first African American governor.
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 Vice President Al Gore, though Gore had 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 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.
2010 - Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, recreated the state of matter shortly after the Big Bang using collisions of lead ions.
2013 - Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social media 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.
2015 - The license plates that were on the limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 were sold at auction for $100,000.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., 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.
2018 - After more than a year of blistering attacks from President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out of that post.
Birthdays
24 - Lorde (singer)
32 - Elsa Hosk (model)
35 - Lucas Neff (actor)
37 - Adam DeVine (actor)
47 - Yunjin Kim (actor)
48 - Jeremy London (actor)
48 - Jason London (actor)
48 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
51 - Michelle Clunie (actor)
53 - Julie Pinson (actress)
63 - Christopher Knight (actor)
77 - Joni Mitchell (singer)
78 - Jean Shrimpton (model)
78 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
82 - Barry Newman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1896 - Kansas defeated Nebraska 18-4.
1898 - Kansas City Medics defeated Nebraska 24-0.
1903 - Nebraska defeated Knox 33-5.
1908 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 23-17.
1914 - Nebraska defeated Morningside 34-7.
1925 - Drake defeated Nebraska 12-0.
1931 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye 7-0.
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports.
1936 - The New York Americans beat Toronto in the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a hockey game in Canada.
1936 - #8 Nebraska defeated Kansas 26-0.
1942 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 26-6.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants end in a 0-0 tie; the last scoreless tie in the NFL.
1953 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 27-19.
1959 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 18-6.
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
1964 - The National League decides to keep the Braves franchise in Milwaukee for 1965 but may move to Atlanta in 1966.
1964 - #5 Nebraska defeated Kansas 14-7.
1965 - Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1970 - #4 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 54-29.
1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1981 - #11 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 54-7.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 42-3.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
1992 - #7 Nebraska defeated #13 Kansas 49-7.
1998 - #14 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 42-7.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2009 - Nebraska upset #20 Oklahoma 10-3.
2015 - Nebraska upset #6 Michigan State 39-38.
1811 - U.S. forces led by Indiana Territory Gov. William Henry Harrison defeated warriors from Tecumseh's Confederacy in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
1848 - Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Democrat Lewis Cass and former President Martin Van Buren of the Free Soil Party for the presidency.
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1876 - Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden.
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 in chemistry 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 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson won a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Charles Evan Hughes.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
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."
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 U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard Nixon was re-elected to a second term 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, the nation's first African American governor.
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 Vice President Al Gore, though Gore had 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 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.
2010 - Scientists at the world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, recreated the state of matter shortly after the Big Bang using collisions of lead ions.
2013 - Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social media 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.
2015 - The license plates that were on the limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 were sold at auction for $100,000.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., 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.
2018 - After more than a year of blistering attacks from President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out of that post.
Birthdays
24 - Lorde (singer)
32 - Elsa Hosk (model)
35 - Lucas Neff (actor)
37 - Adam DeVine (actor)
47 - Yunjin Kim (actor)
48 - Jeremy London (actor)
48 - Jason London (actor)
48 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
51 - Michelle Clunie (actor)
53 - Julie Pinson (actress)
63 - Christopher Knight (actor)
77 - Joni Mitchell (singer)
78 - Jean Shrimpton (model)
78 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
82 - Barry Newman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1896 - Kansas defeated Nebraska 18-4.
1898 - Kansas City Medics defeated Nebraska 24-0.
1903 - Nebraska defeated Knox 33-5.
1908 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 23-17.
1914 - Nebraska defeated Morningside 34-7.
1925 - Drake defeated Nebraska 12-0.
1931 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye 7-0.
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports.
1936 - The New York Americans beat Toronto in the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a hockey game in Canada.
1936 - #8 Nebraska defeated Kansas 26-0.
1942 - Missouri defeated Nebraska 26-6.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants end in a 0-0 tie; the last scoreless tie in the NFL.
1953 - Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 27-19.
1959 - Cockeye State defeated Nebraska 18-6.
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
1964 - The National League decides to keep the Braves franchise in Milwaukee for 1965 but may move to Atlanta in 1966.
1964 - #5 Nebraska defeated Kansas 14-7.
1965 - Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1970 - #4 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 54-29.
1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1981 - #11 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 54-7.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 42-3.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
1992 - #7 Nebraska defeated #13 Kansas 49-7.
1998 - #14 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 42-7.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2009 - Nebraska upset #20 Oklahoma 10-3.
2015 - Nebraska upset #6 Michigan State 39-38.