What are the important events that happened on November 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 7 is the 311^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 25, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,374,560 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecahenagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 102 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,704 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 7 Historical Events

• 1665 –
  The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 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.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
• 1912 –
  The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
• 1917 –
  The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• 1918 –
  The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
• 1933 –
  Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
• 1967 –
  US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 1989 –
  David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
• 1989 –
  Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

Who were born on November 7?

• 1893 –
  Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1899 –
  Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
• 1903 –
  Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1927 –
  Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive
• 1954 –
  Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• 1954 –
  Robin Beck, American singer
• 1957 –
  John Benitez, American musician
• 1974 –
  Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
• 1976 –
  Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
• 1979 –
  Barney Harwood, English television presenter

Who died on November 7?

• 1225 –
  Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1550 –
  Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland (b. 1484)
• 1837 –
  Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
• 1930 –
  Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1944 –
  Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1974 –
  Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1991 –
  Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1996 –
  Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
• 2004 –
  Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 –
  George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)