This Day in History – November 7
1805 – Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean.
1848 – General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of the US.
1876 – Edward Bouchet is 1st African American to receive a Ph.D from a US collery (Yale)
1907 – Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities is founded at New York University.
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative.
1918 – United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed.
1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey.
1962 – Richard Nixon tells press he won’t be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California.
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 – Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states.
1973 – New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league.
1973 – US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links.
1983 – Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries.
1990 – Cleveland Indian Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins American League Rookie of the Year, unanimously.
2000 – Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush’s favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court.
2000 – Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming the first US First Lady to win pubic office and while still the First Lady.
2012 – Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage.
2017 – Danica Roem becomes the first US transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the US in North Virginia.
2017 – US Democrats dominate off-year elections; Ralph Northam wins Governor of Virginia, & Philip Murphy wins Governor of New Jersey.
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