November 7 birthdays & history

Famous people born on November 7

• 1867Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1913Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1879Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army
• 1728James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer
• 1888C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1878Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist and academic
• 1903Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1967David Guetta, French DJ, record producer, remixer, and songwriter
• 1990David de Gea, Spanish footballer
• 1598Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter

What happened on November 7

• 680The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
• 1723O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, a dialogue cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for Leipzig, was first performed.
• 1861The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
• 1874A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
• 1885The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• 1893Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
• 1916Jeannette Rankin became the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives.
• 1934The first specimens of the tufted jay to be scientifically described were collected in Mexico.
• 1949Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
• 1987Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.
• 1996NASA launched Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 2000Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.

Also observed on November 7

• Students' Day, the anniversary of B. R. Ambedkar's school entry day. (Maharashtra, India)
• Commemoration Day, the anniversary of Ben Ali's succession. (Tunisia)
• Hungarian Opera Day (Hungary)
• International Inuit Day
• National Day, after Treaty of the Pyrenees. (Northern Catalonia, France)
• National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)