It happened on this day, November 7
Events:
1492 – The “Inseiheim” meteorite hits Earth at midday in a wheat field outside Alsace, France.
1875 – Ethiopian forces led by the British Kirkham are besieged in a valley and then annihilate an Egyptian division of 2,000 soldiers led by the Swiss Menzinger Pasha during the “Battle of Gondt” as part of the Abyssinian campaign.
1916 – Janet Rankin is elected to the United States Congress, becoming the first woman elected to its membership.
1917 – The Bolsheviks take power in Russia.
🌟 British forces led by General Edmund Allenby managed to capture the Gaza Strip in Palestine from Ottoman forces.
1919 – More than 10,000 communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 American cities.
1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree leading to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia.
1921 – Benito Mussolini declares himself “Duce” of the Fascist Party.
1949 – King Farouk I of Egypt issues a decree dissolving Parliament and holding new elections.
1956 – The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution calling on Britain, France and Israel to immediately withdraw from Egypt following their invasion of Suez.
1962 – Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union under which American ships would verify at sea the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
1972 – Richard Nixon is re-elected President of the United States for a second term.
1973 – Egypt and the United States resume full diplomatic relations after a break that lasted approximately six years since the 1967 war.
1983 – Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid makes an official visit to France, the first by an Algerian president since independence.
1985 – The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, announces from Cairo his condemnation of all forms of terrorism, but reiterates his insistence on the right of Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation on their land.
1987 – Tunisian Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrows President Habib Bourguiba in a bloodless coup and assumes the presidency of Tunisia.
1990 – Mary Robinson is elected President of the Republic of Ireland, becoming the first woman to become President.
2004 – The Iraqi interim government declares a state of emergency for 60 days.
2007 – The pound sterling reaches its highest value against the dollar in twenty-six years, reaching $2,1161.
2012 – US President Barack Obama wins a second presidential term after obtaining 303 votes in the electoral college, compared to 206 votes for his competitor Mitt Romney.
2016 – Opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco.
2018 Election of Moroccan academic Ahmed Al-Raysuni as president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, succeeding founder Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
2020 – Joe Biden wins the presidential election
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Births:
1852 – Daoud Saliwa, Iraqi journalist, teacher and poet.
1867 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
1878 – Lise Meitner, Swedish physicist.
1879 – Leon Trotsky, communist leader and thinker.
1888 – Chandrasekhara Raman, Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
1903 – Konrad Lorentz, Austrian zoologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973.
1913 – Albert Camus, French writer and philosopher, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
1929 – Eric Kandel, American neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2000.
1937 – Ragaa Hussein, Egyptian actress.
1939 – Barbara Leskov, American computer scientist.
1973 – Martin Palermo, Argentine footballer.
1975 – Marzouq Al-Otaibi, Saudi footballer.
1978 – Maxim Khalil, Syrian actor.
** Mohamed Abu Trika, Egyptian footballer.
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Death:
644 AD – Omar bin Al-Khattab, the second rightly guided caliph.
1956 – Ziyan Ashour, leader of the Algerian revolution in the Sahara.
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician and wife of American President Franklin Roosevelt.
1965 – Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al-Manea, Saudi religious scholar and educator.
2011 – Joe Frazier, American boxer.
2013 – Manfred Rommel, mayor of Stuttgart and only son of former German military commander Erwin Rommel.
2019 – Haitham Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ National holiday in Northern Catalonia.
⏪ World Medical Physics Day (designated by the International Organization for Medical Physics to fall on Marie Curie's birthday).
