1983 – A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured. http://1983 – A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured.
1492 – Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.
1519 – University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1631 – Pierre Gassendi observes 1st ever transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 – Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
1651 – King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1665 – “The London Gazette” was first published, published as “The Oxford Gazette”
1742 – Empress Elizabeth of Russia proclaims her nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (later Peter III) her heir
1775 – Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1800 – It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)
1811 – The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).
1837 – In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction.
1872 – Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later
1874 – The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
1876 – The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.
1914 – Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914 – The “New Republic” magazine was printed for the first time.
1916 – Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1917 – British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
1917 – Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1918 – During World War I, a false report through the United Press announced that an armistice had been signed.
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a revolutionary uprising spreads throughout Germany
1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
1929 – The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
1932 – “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” was broadcast for the first on CBS Radio.
1933 – Voters in Pennsylvania eliminated sports from Pennsylvanian “Blue Laws.”
1940 – The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
1947 – Coup in Thailand, The military staged a coup against Thawan Thamrong Nawasawat and installed Khuang Aphaiwong as Prime Minister.
1955 – Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1956 – Suez Crisis ends with a ceasefire as the United Nations Emergency Force is established at instigation of Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 – Richard Nixon tells press he won’t be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
1963 – Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees, became the first black player to be named the American League’s Most Valuable Player.
1965 – The “Pillsbury Dough Boy” debuted in television commercials.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 – The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments.
1973 – New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1973 – The U.S. Congress over-rode President Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive’s power to wage war without congressional approval.
1983 – A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/bomb-explodes-in-us-capitol-nov-7-1983-244578
1985 – The Colombian army stormed the country’s Palace of Justice. The siege claimed the lives of 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices. The Palace had been seized by leftist guerrillas belonging to the April 19 Movement.
1987 – Tunisia’s president Habib Bourguiba was overthrown. He had been president since the country’s independence in 1956.
1989 – L. Douglas Wilder won the governor’s race in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American state governor in U.S. history.
1989 – Richard Ramirez, convicted of California’s “Night Stalker” killings, was sentenced to death.
1991 – Pro- and anti-Communists rallies took place in Moscow on the 74th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1991 – Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theater.
1995 – In a Japanese courtroom, three U.S. military men admitted to the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas
2002 – Iran bans advertising of products from the United States
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.
2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2012 – Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
2015 – Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)
2018 – Ex-marine opens fire at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, shooting 12, including a police officer, and himself
2019 – Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, the “Terminator” is the to be convicted of sexual slavery by the International Criminal Court and is sentenced to 30 years in prison on 18 charges
2020 – Rudy Giuliani holds infamous Trump Campaign press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to contest the US election results
2021 – Attempt to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi through drone attack on his home in Baghdad
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
