Right now is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2024. There are 54 days left within the 12 months.
Right now in historical past:
On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana received election to the U.S. Home of Representatives, changing into the primary lady elected to both chamber of Congress.
Additionally on this date:
In 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution occurred as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional authorities of Alexander Kerensky.
In 1940, Washington state’s authentic Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound throughout a windstorm simply 4 months after opening to visitors.
In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received an unprecedented fourth time period in workplace, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon was reelected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
In 1989, L. Douglas Wilder received the governor’s race in Virginia, changing into the primary elected Black governor in U.S. historical past; David N. Dinkins was elected New York Metropolis’s first Black mayor.
In 1991, basketball star Magic Johnson introduced that he had examined constructive for HIV and was retiring.
In 2011, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Michael Jackson’s physician, Conrad Murray, of involuntary manslaughter for supplying a strong anesthetic implicated within the entertainer’s 2009 dying. (Murray was sentenced to 4 years in jail. He served two years and was launched in October 2013.)
In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden clinched victory over President Donald Trump as a win in Pennsylvania pushed Biden over the edge of 270 Electoral School votes. Trump refused to concede.
Right now’s Birthdays: Baseball Corridor of Famer Jim Kaat is 86. Former Singer Johnny Rivers is 82. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is 81. Retired Military common and former CIA Director David Petraeus is 72. Actor Christopher Knight (TV: “The Brady Bunch”) is 67. DJ-producer David Guetta is 57. Actor Yunjin Kim is 51. Rock singer Lorde is 28.
