November 7
1307 Legendary Swiss patriot William Tell is on this day said to have shot Hermann Gessler, the Austrian Governor of the Tyrol, with his trusty crossbow.
1659 The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.
1783 The last public hanging in Britain takes place at Tyburn. Forger John Austin is the last to die there.
1865 The Repeating Lighter Company of Springfield, Massachusetts manufactures the first pocket cigarette lighter, the Eire Pocket lighter.
1876 The cigarette manufacturing machine is patented by Albert H. Hook of New York City.
1885 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed when the last spike is driven at Craigellachie in British Columbia. The 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad starts in Montreal, Quebec, running between Montreal and Port Moody, B.C.
1893 The state of Colorado grants women residents the right to vote.
1914 WW1: The Japanese capture Tsingtao, the only German base on the China coast. Japan also occupies Germany's Marshall, Marianas, Palau, and Caroline Island groups.
1917 Russian Revolution: Just before daybreak, the Bolsheviks seize the railway station, state bank, the power stations, and telephone exchange. In the evening they arrest the cabinet members meeting in the Winter Palace.
1929 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is opened to the public.
1933 Hitler has Goering deliver a letter to Mussolini in Rome, thanking him for his efforts on "a fair handling of international relations" and informing him of the Reich's position in respect to disarmament. (Domarus)
1933 Fiorello LaGuardia is elected mayor of New York City.
1936 Spanish Civil War: The so-called International Brigade, composed primarily of Socialists and Communists, arrives in Madrid and a battle for the city begins.
1939 WW2: Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands and King Leopold of Belgium issue a plea for peace to England and France.
1939 WW2: Hitler postpones his attack on the west, which was scheduled for November 12. This postponement will be repeated 15 times until May 10, 1940.
1942 WW2: British forces enter Mersa Matruh, but most of Rommel's divisions have already slipped away.
1944 WW2: General de Gaulle, as leader of the Free French forces, summons the first session of the new French National Assembly.
1946 A coin-operated television receiver is displayed in New York City. Folks drop in a quarter to sneak a peak at various test patterns and a model of Felix the Cat.
1956 The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling upon Britain, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Egypt immediately.
1962 Richard M. Nixon, who has failed in a bid to become governor of California, holds what he calls his 'last press conference,' telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
1967 President Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 US and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.
1983 A bomb explodes in the US Capitol, causing heavy damage just outside the Senate chamber but no injuries.
1985 Colombian troops end a 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice by 35 M-19 guerrillas. 11 Supreme Court judges are among the 100 people killed.
1987 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in office since independence in 1956, is overthrown in a bloodless coup.
1987 Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg asks President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the US Supreme Court, citing the clamor that has arisen over Ginsburg's admission that he had smoked marijuana on occasion.
1989 The East German government resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1990 The European Commission in Brussels rules that carrots are fruit, because they can be made into jam.
1990 Mary Robinson is elected in Ireland's first presidential election in 17 years, becoming the country's first woman president.
1991 NATO leaders approve an unprecedented formal link with their former East European foes and adopt a new post-Cold War strategy.
1992 Death: Alexander Dubcek, Czech leader who had sought to install "socialism with a human face" in the Prague Spring of 1968, from injuries suffered in a car crash.
1995 Three US servicemen plead guilty in a courtroom on the Japanese island of Okinawa to conspiring to abduct and rape a 12-year-old girl.
1996 US Secretary of State Warren Christopher announces his resignation, starting President Clinton's process of assembling a second-term cabinet.
1997 The US jobless rate drops to 4.7, the lowest since October 1973.
2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair insists that his global activity for the war on terrorism does not mean domestic issues such as crime, health and education are being neglected.
2001 British PM Tony Blair flies on the Concorde and meets with US President George W. Bush. At a Washington press conference Blair says, "the strategy has to encompass more than air strikes...there are other operations we will mount." Bush adds, "slowly but surely the Taliban is crumbling."
2001 US jets resume bombing in northern Afghanistan, targeting Taliban positions near the country's northeastern border with Tajikistan.
2001 The anti-Taliban Northern Alliance claims new victories in the battle for the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. A Northern Alliance spokesman declares, "We hope to reach the gates of Mazar tonight."
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