7th November is a day whereby:
1917: Bolshevik revolution
Vladimir Lenin seizes power from the Tsarist regime in a coup d'etat. Widespread starvation and catastrophic military failure in the First World War left Russia ripe for revolt. Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate on 15th March 1917, and an ineffectual provincial government was established in his place. Contemptuous of what the revolution had accomplished thus far, Lenin returned from exile in Switzerland to spark his Bolshevik revolutionaries culminating in the coup of 7th November He led the Soviet Union until his death in 1924 and was succeeded by Joseph Stalin2000
Hilary Clinton is elected as a Senator for New York making her the only ever First Leader to win an elected office in American history.
2000
Americans vote in what turns out to be one of the most controversial Presidential elections in America history. Republican George W. Bush is eventually proclaimed the winner, but having lost the popular vote to Vice President
Al Gore. 1991
Basketball legend, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, announces his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, after testing positive for HIV.
1989
In
East Germany, the Communist dominated government resigns.
1989
Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, becomes the first elected African American state governor in American history, winning the Governorship in Virginia. 1975
In the Republic of Ireland, the Dutch industrialist Dr Tiede Herrema is released by the
IRA, who had been holding him hostage for two months.
1972
American President Richard Nixon is re-elected, scoring a massive electoral victory over Democratic Senator
George McGovern. 1956
President Eisenhower wins a second term in the
White House defeating Democrat challenger Adlai Stevenson in the American presidential election, wining 58% of the popular
vote. 1944
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected president of the United States becoming the first and only president in history to win a fourth term in office.
1944
The Second World War: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, who had used the cover of a
German journalist to report on Germany and
Japan for the
Soviet Union, is hanged by his
Japanese captors.
1940
Four months after its completion, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State, U.S.A. spectacularly collapses.
1917
The First World War: The Allies capture Gaza from the
Ottoman Empire ending the Third Battle of Gaza.
1914
The American journal The New Republic is published for the first time.
1885
The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1665
The oldest surviving English newspaper The London Gazette is published for the first time.
2008
alevel '08 math paper 2 and it's a friday.
7th November is such a wonderful date that you should remember!!
will you?
