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November 7
1862 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaced Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893 - Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
1916 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 - Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon won re-election in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress overrode President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, becoming the nation's first black governor.
1998 - House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush was elected president over Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. (The winner was not known however for more than a month due to disputed votes in Florida.)
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate representing New York, becoming the first former first lady to win public office.
2001 - The Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden’s multi-million-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.
2005 - President George W. Bush, in Panama, defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful, saying, “We do not torture.”
2006 - Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.
2009 - The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
2013 - Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social network was valued at $31 billion.
2014 - President Barack Obama authorized a broad expansion of the U.S. military mission in Iraq that called for boosting the total number of American troops there to about 3,100.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., before apparently taking his own life as officers closed in; the victims included a man who had survived the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas.
Birthdays
23 - Lorde (singer)
31 - Elsa Hosk (model)
34 - Lucas Neff (actor)
36 - Adam Devine (actor)
38 - Anushka Shetty (actress)
46 - Yunjin Kim (actress)
47 - Jason London (actor)
47 - Jeremy London (actor)
47 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
50 - Michelle Clunie (actress)
52 - Julie Pinson (actress)
62 - Christopher Knight (actor)
64 - Rene Marie (singer)
76 - Joni Mitchell (singer)
77 - Jean Shrimpton (model)
77 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
79 - Dakin Matthews (actor)
81 - Barry Newman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 7
1912 - Black boxing champion Jack Johnson was indicted in Chicago for allegedly violating the Mann Act with a white woman, Belle Schreiber. (Johnson was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison; he fled the U.S., later returning to serve his term. The Mann Act was also known as the White Slave Traffic Act, but was used in all types of cases.)
1936 - The New York Americans beat Toronto in the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a hockey game in Canada.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the last scoreless tie in NFL history.
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
1965 - Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1968 - Red Berenson (St. Louis Blues) scored 6 goals in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blues won the game 8-0.
1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers announced he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring from the game.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
1862 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaced Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.
1874 - The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1893 - Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
1916 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's government in Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City at age 78.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 - Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city.
1972 - President Richard M. Nixon won re-election in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973 - Congress overrode President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia, becoming the nation's first black governor.
1998 - House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush was elected president over Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. (The winner was not known however for more than a month due to disputed votes in Florida.)
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate representing New York, becoming the first former first lady to win public office.
2001 - The Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden’s multi-million-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations.
2005 - President George W. Bush, in Panama, defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful, saying, “We do not torture.”
2006 - Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress.
2009 - The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed, 220-215, landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lacked it and placed tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.
2013 - Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social network was valued at $31 billion.
2014 - President Barack Obama authorized a broad expansion of the U.S. military mission in Iraq that called for boosting the total number of American troops there to about 3,100.
2018 - A gunman killed 12 people at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., before apparently taking his own life as officers closed in; the victims included a man who had survived the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas.
Birthdays
23 - Lorde (singer)
31 - Elsa Hosk (model)
34 - Lucas Neff (actor)
36 - Adam Devine (actor)
38 - Anushka Shetty (actress)
46 - Yunjin Kim (actress)
47 - Jason London (actor)
47 - Jeremy London (actor)
47 - Christopher Daniel Barnes (actor)
50 - Michelle Clunie (actress)
52 - Julie Pinson (actress)
62 - Christopher Knight (actor)
64 - Rene Marie (singer)
76 - Joni Mitchell (singer)
77 - Jean Shrimpton (model)
77 - Johnny Rivers (singer)
79 - Dakin Matthews (actor)
81 - Barry Newman (actor)
========================================
Today in Sports History - November 7
1912 - Black boxing champion Jack Johnson was indicted in Chicago for allegedly violating the Mann Act with a white woman, Belle Schreiber. (Johnson was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison; he fled the U.S., later returning to serve his term. The Mann Act was also known as the White Slave Traffic Act, but was used in all types of cases.)
1936 - The New York Americans beat Toronto in the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a hockey game in Canada.
1943 - The Detroit Lions and New York Giants play the last scoreless tie in NFL history.
1962 - Glenn Hall set an NHL record when he played in his 503rd consecutive game as a goalie.
1965 - Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers was sacked 11 times by the Detroit Lions.
1968 - Red Berenson (St. Louis Blues) scored 6 goals in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blues won the game 8-0.
1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers announced he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring from the game.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
