November 7
1837
American Presbyterian abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah P. Lovejoy, 35, was murdered. Forced earlier to move his business from St. Louis to Alton, Illinois, Lovejoy was shot during the night by an anti-abolitionist mob while defending his presses.
1862
General George B. McClellan receives President Lincoln’s order relieving him of command of the Army of the Potomac.
1867
Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, was born.
1874
The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893
Colorado granted women the right to vote.
1916
Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917
Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
1918
Birth of evangelist Billy Graham near Charlotte, NC.
1929
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened.
1940
At approximately 11:00 am, the first Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations. Situated on the Tacoma Narrows in Puget Sound, near the city of Tacoma, Washington, the bridge had only been open for traffic a few months
1944
President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
1962
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died at age 78.
1967
Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first black mayor of a major American city.
1972
President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1989
L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the nation's first elected black governor.
2000
Repblican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida.
2000
Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first first lady to win public office, defeating Republican Rick Lazio for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
