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 311th 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, 1,762,473,600 seconds 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.
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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.
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November 7 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1811 –Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
- 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 –World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 –Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1963 –Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- 1990 –Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
- 2000 –Hillary Rodham 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.
- 2004 –War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Who were born on November 7?
- 994 –Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
- 1918 –Billy Graham, American evangelist
- 1923 –Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (d. 1990)
- 1943 –Boris Gromov, Russian general
- 1943 –Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
- 1947 –Holmes Osborne, American actor
- 1963 –Sam Graves, American politician
- 1972 –Jason London and Jeremy London, American actors
- 1976 –Chang Hao, Chinese professional Go player
- 1979 –Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
Who died on November 7?
- 1599 –Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
- 1633 –Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
- 1881 –John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
- 1944 –Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
- 1965 –Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 2nd successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (b. 1889)
- 1968 –Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 2000 –Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
- 2006 –Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
- 2007 –Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
- 2007 –George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)
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