7th November
Chris wasn’t able to write an entry today. To read diary entries from the past few days, which include bonfire night celebrations, use the navigation bar below.
If you’d like discover what happened on this day in history visit the 353 Diary blog.
BBC political editor John Cole dies age 85.
Dad’s Army actor Clive Dunn dies age 92.
Joe Frazier dies age 67.
Hillary Clinton is first First Lady in Senate.
Magic Johnson announces he is HIV positive.
Mary Robinson became Ireland's first female president.
L. Douglas Wilder became the first African American governor in U.S. history, elected governor of Virginia.
The East German government resigned after pro-democracy protests.
Eisenhower is returned to the White House with the biggest share of votes for 100 years.
Steve McQueen dies age 50.
IRA kidnappers release industrialist.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term, defeating Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt died less than a year later on April 12, 1945.
Soviet master spy is hanged by the Japanese.
Gaither report calls for more U.S. missiles and fallout shelters.
Russian Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.
Canada's first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific, was completed in British Columbia.
Battle of Belmont, Missouri.
A pro-slavery mob attacked and killed American abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy at his printing works in Alton, Illinois.
General William H. Harrison led 1,000 Americans in battle, defeating the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe Creek near Lafayette, Indiana.
The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.
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