Hankering For History: Events that happened today in history, Nov 7th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 6th!

1665	The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. The London Gazette (1688)
1811	Rebellious Indians in a conspiracy organized in defiance of the United States government by Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, are defeated during his absence in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe) by William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory.
1814	Andrew Jackson attacks and captures Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force.
1846	Zachary Taylor, one of the heroes of the Mexican War, is elected president.
1861	Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches an unsuccessful raid on Belmont, Missouri.
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes is elected 19th president of the United States.
1881	Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona’s, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near.
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	President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, but the race is so close that all votes must be counted before an outcome can be determined, so the results are not known until November 11.
1916	Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1917	British General Sir Edmond Allenby breaks the Turkish defensive line in the Third Battle of Gaza.
1917	The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, take power in Russia.
1921	Benito Mussolini declares himself to be leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy.
1940	Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses.
1943	British troops launch a limited offensive along the coast of Burma.
1944	President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
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	President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972	President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
1973	Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act.
1991	Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
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 incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida.
2000	Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first first lady to win public office.
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.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.