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 312^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 25, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 480,816 hours 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 ‘trihectadecadigon’ 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 83 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 4,339 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 7 Historical Events

• 1837 –
  In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• 1874 –
  A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
• 1916 –
  Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 1921 –
  The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
• 1933 –
  Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
• 1975 –
  In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
• 1987 –
  In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 1989 –
  Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
• 1990 –
  Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1994 –
  WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.

Who were born on November 7?

• 1860 –
  Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
• 1903 –
  Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1938 –
  Jake Gibbs, American baseball player
• 1938 –
  Jim Kaat, American baseball player
• 1943 –
  Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
• 1964 –
  Dana Plato, American actress and child actor (d. 1999)
• 1973 –
  Catê, Brazilian footballer (d. 2011)
• 1973 –
  Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
• 1986 –
  Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model
• 1990 –
  David de Gea, Spanish footballer

Who died on November 7?

• 1639 –
  Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
• 1713 –
  Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1906 –
  Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
• 1944 –
  Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
• 1965 –
  Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 2nd successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (b. 1889)
• 1967 –
  John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
• 1968 –
  Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1974 –
  Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
• 1994 –
  Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
• 2002 –
  Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)