What happened on November 7 in other years, from the events Wikipedia's editors chose for its "On this day":
- 680: The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism. → Third Council of Constantinople
- 1825: Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state. → Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy
- 1893: Between 20 and 30 people were killed in the Liceu bombing, a terrorist attack by the Spanish anarchist Santiago Salvador. → Liceu bombing
- 1949: Oil 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. → Neft Daşları
- 1987: Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office. → 1987 Tunisian coup d'état
- 2000: Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office. → 2000 United States Senate election in New York
Born on November 7
- 1728: James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (died 1779)
- 1867: Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
- 1879: Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (died 1940)
- 1913: Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
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