November 7: First slave emancipation issued by British, Day of the Bolshevik Revolution

November 7, 11:39 AMPortland History ExaminerNatalie Leavitt

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Maine Fast Fact: Maine’s average November high temperature is 50 degrees Fahrenheit and the low average is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

Births:

• 1728: Captain James Cook, British naval officer, cartographer and explorer
• 1867: Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for radioactivity
• 1914: Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer
• 1918: Billy Graham, American evangelist, broadcasted sermons on the radio and television
• 1937: Mary Travers, American singer, part of the group Peter, Paul & Mary
• 1943: Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer, songwriter and painter
• 1957: Christopher Knight, American actor, known for his role as Peter Brady on the television series The Brady Bunch
• 1960: Tommy Thayer, American musician, current lead guitarist of the rock group Kiss
• 1970: Morgan Spurlock, American documentary filmmaker, television producer and screenwriter, best known for his documentary film Supersize Me
• 1972: Jason London, American actor; Jeremy London, American actor

Deaths:

• 1633: Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor of the first navigable submarine
• 1962: Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1980: Steve McQueen, American actor

History:

• 1665: The oldest surviving journal, the London Gazette, is first published.
• 1775: The Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, John Murray, begins the first emancipation of slaves when he issues Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation which grants freedom to slaves who abandon their masters in order to fight with Murray and the British during the Revolutionary War.
• 1811: The Battle of Tippecanoe during Tecumseh’s War is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
• 1861: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant invade a Confederate camp but have to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive at the Battle of Belmont during the Civil War.
• 1874: A cartoon by Thomas Nast is printed in Harper’s Weekly and is considered to be the the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party in the U.S.
• 1893: The state of Colorado grants women the right to vote.
• 1910: The first air freight shipment is made by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio.
• 1914: The first issue of the magazine The New Republic is published.
• 1916: Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution takes place in Russia when Vladmir Ilyich Lenin overthrows the government of Alexander Kerensky.
• 1929: The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
• 1940: The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, Washington collapses in a windstorm just four months after its completion.
• 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term as President.
• 1956: The United Nations General Assembly calls for the United Kingdom, Israel and France to withdraw their troops from Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
• 1967: Carl B. Stokes becomes the first African American mayor of a major city when he is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio; The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is established when President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
• 1972: President Richard M. Nixon is re-elected to president, defeating Democrat George McGovern.
• 1983: A bomb explodes in the U.S. Capitol Building but no deaths or injuries are reported.
• 1989: Douglas Wilder is elected governor of Virginia, the first elected African American governor in the United States; David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
• 1990: Mary Robinson is elected first woman President of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1991: Magic Johnson announces he has HIV and retires from the NBA.
• 2000: Republican George W. Bush is elected president over Democrat Vice-President Al Gore despite Gore’s win of the popular vote; Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first former First Lady to win public office when she is elected to the U.S. Senate.
• 2006: Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota becomes the first Muslim elected to U.S. Congress.
• 2007: Nine people die in the Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland.

November 7 is the Day of the Bolshevik Revolution, an unofficial holiday celebrated in Russia.