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It happened one 07 November
1940 : Tacoma Narrows bridge collapsedOn November 7, 1940, the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge in Washington state, measuring 1810m in length, collapsed after being distorted too violently due to winds of only 64km/h. It had been open to the public on July 1 of that year. |
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1944 : Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected to his fourth termOn November 7, 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the U.S. presidential elections for the 4th time, despite a declining health. After managing the crisis of the Great Depression of the 30s, he had then to run a country at war. He died shortly after the start of his fourth term in April 1945. In 1951, the U.S. Constitution was amended to limit the number of presidential terms to two. Previously, only the willingness of presidents to follow George Washington's example limited the number. Anyway, only Franklin Delano Roosevelt won more than two presidential elections. |
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1987 : Ben Ali replaced BourguibaOn November 7, 1987, Tunisian Prime Minister Ben Ali made a coup without bloodshed to replace the President Habib Bourguiba who was declared incompetent for health reasons. He remained at his post until January 14, 2011, when violent protests in his country forced him to resign. |
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2000 : Hillary Rodham Clinton elected to the SenateOn November 7, 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton, then First Lady of the United States, was elected to the Senate. |
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2007 : Shooting in a school in FinlandOn November 7, 2007, a 18-year-old student opened fire in a high school in Jokela, Finland. He killed eight people before killing himself. He had no difficulty in obtaining an SIG Mosquito automatic pistol legally. |
Quote of the day : 07 November
| Marie Curie Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. |
Birthdays : 07 November
| James Cook, English explorer (1728) | |
| Marie Curie, French-Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry (1867) | |
| Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (1879) | |
| C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics (1888) | |
| Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (1897) | |
| Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1903) | |
| Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) | |
| Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (1926) | |
| Graeme Allwright, New-Zealand singer (1926) | |
| Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano (1936) | |
| Michael Byrne, English actor (1943) | |
| Lindsay Duncan, English actress (1950) | |
| David Petraeus, Director of the CIA (1952) | |
| Tommy Thayer, American musician (Kiss) (1960) | |
| Franck Dubosc, French humorist (1963) | |
| Dana Plato, American actress (1964) | |
| David Guetta, French DJ (1967) | |
| Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer (Texas) (1967) | |
| Hélène Grimaud, French pianist (1969) | |
| Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player (1970) | |
| Raphael, French singer (1975) | |
| Anushka Shetty, Indian actress (1981) |
They left us one 07 November
| Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American abolitionist journalist (1837) | |
| Richard Sorge, German communist and soviet spy (1944) | |
| Victor McLaglen, English actor (1959) | |
| Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (1933-1945) (1962) | |
| Steve McQueen, American actor (1980) | |
| Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (1992) | |
| Paul Ricard, French industrialist (1997) | |
| Howard Keel, American actor (2004) | |
| Guy Degrenne, French industrialist (2006) |
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