November 7th in History

680 - The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.


1619 - Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.

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, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.

1893 - Women's Suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

1916 - Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.


1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.



1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

1956 -Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

1967 - Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.

1990 - Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of Ireland.

2000 - Hillary Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.

2012 -President Barack Obama defeats Governor Mitt Romney to win second term as US President.

Famous Birthdays:

630 - Constans II, Byzantine Emperor

1728 - Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer 

1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry 

1921 - Jack Fleck, professional golfer

1943 - Michael Byrne, actor

1954 - Robin Beck, singer

1972 - Hasim Rahman, boxer