Today in History: Turkish Army Captured Gyumri

November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 54.

Railways

• 7 November 1918 The military commissioners working along the railways were asked to report the status of wood and coal in the regional warehouses on a regular basis every day.
• 7 November 1941 The tender was made for the railway from Diyarbakır and Elazığ stations to Iraq and Iran.

Events 

• 656 – The Battle of Cemel, the first civil war between Muslims, took place.
• 1665 – The longest living newspaper, The London Gazette, is first published.
• 1848 - Zachary Taylor is elected president of the United States.
• 1892 – The foundation of Darülaceze was laid in Istanbul.
• 1893 – In the US state of Colorado, women were granted the right to vote.
• 1916 - Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States.
• 1917 – October Revolution; The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia.
• 1917 – World War I: British forces capture Gaza under Ottoman rule.
• 1918 – Influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa. By the end of the year, it had killed 7.542 people (20% of the population).
• 1920 – Turkish army captured Gyumri.
• 1921 - In Italy, Mussolini declares himself leader of the National Fascist Party.
• 1929 – The Museum of Modern Art opened in New York.
• 1936 – Hungarian musician Bela Bartok gave a lecture in Ankara Community Center.
• 1942 – Turkish Revolution Institute was established.
• 1944 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the US Presidential election for the fourth time.
• 1953 – Mosaics from the Byzantine period were found in the Zeyrek Mosque in Istanbul.
• 1962 – In South Africa, Mandela is sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegally leaving the country.
• 1962 – The International Marriage Consent, Minimum Age of Marriage and the Convention on the Writing of Marriages was signed. Turkey has not ratified this convention.
• 1963 – The first legal Strike started in Bursa. 222 workers working at Bursa Municipality Bus Enterprise went on strike. The workers were members of the Motor Vehicle Workers Union.
• 1964 – President Cemal Gürsel pardoned former President Celal Bayar, who was sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1972 - Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States.
• 1980 – The period of detention in collective crimes was increased from 30 days to 90 days.
• 1980 – Publisher İlhan Erdost died as a result of beating in Mamak Military Prison.
• 1982 – A popular vote was held for the 1982 Constitution. The Constitution was accepted with a “YES” vote of 91,37%. Kenan Evren became the 7th President of Turkey.
• 1986 – Directed by Zeki Ökten Wrestler The film received the International Olympic Committee Award
• 1987 – Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba was dismissed.
• 1988 – It has been announced that about a thousand people have been on hunger strike in prisons for a while. The strike was against the practice of wearing uniforms and chains.
• 1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announced he was quitting basketball after he tested positive for HIV.
• 1996 – Nigerian Airlines Boeing-727 passenger plane crashes into a laguna 40 miles southeast of Lagos: 143 people are killed.
• 1999 – Yasemin Dalkılıç broke the world record in tubeless diving (68 m).
• 2000 – Presidential elections were held in the USA. Although Democratic candidate Al Gore received more votes than Republican candidate George W. Bush, after a highly controversial period of uncertainty, George W. Bush was proclaimed President on December 12, 2000, by decision of the US Supreme Court.
• 2001 – Commercial passenger plane Concorde resumed its flights after 15 months.
• 2002 – In a referendum held in Gibraltar, 99 percent of the population rejected the proposal to share the sovereignty of the British colony of Gibraltar with Spain.
• 2003 – The world's largest floating book fair MV DaulusArrived at Izmir's Alsancak Port.
• 2020 – Coronavirus outbreak: The number of confirmed cases worldwide exceeds 50 million.

Births 

• 60 – Keikō, 12th emperor of Japan in traditional succession (d. 130)
• 630 – II. Konstans (Bearded Constantine), the last Byzantine Emperor to hold the title of Roman Consul (d. 668)
• 994 – Ibn Hazm, Huelva, Andalusian-Arab philosopher, historian and theologian (d. 1064)
• 1186 – Ögeday Khan, Mongol Emperor and son of Genghis Khan (d. 1241)
• 1316 – Semyon, Grand Prince of Moscow from 1340-1353 (d. 1353)
• 1599 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• 1826 – Dmitry Bakradze, Georgian historian, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1890)
• 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American diplomat, author, and educator (d. 1918)
• 1838 – Mathias Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
• 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1934)
• 1878 – Lise Meitner, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist who discovered nuclear fission (d. 1968)
• 1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian Bolshevik politician, revolutionary, and Marxist theorist (one of the leading figures of the 1917 Russian revolution) (d. 1940)
• 1888 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary (d. 1934)
• 1891 – Genrih Yagoda, head of the Soviet secret police during the Stalin era (d. 1938)
• 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and Oscar winner (d. 1953)
• 1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian ethologist (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Albert Camus, French writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1918 – Billy Graham, Evangelical Christian preacher-opinion leader (d. 2018)
• 1920 – Ignacio Eizaguirre, Spanish football goalkeeper (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jack Fleck, American golfer (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian coloratura soprano (d. 2010)
• 1927 Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Eric Kandel, American psychiatrist, neurologist, physiologist, behavioral biologist
• 1929 – Lila Kaye, English actress (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Dušan Šinigoj, Slovenian politician, former prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
• 1938 – Joe Dassin, French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1939 – Barbara Liskov, American computer scientist
• 1940 – Dakin Matthews is an American actor, playwright, and theater director.
• 1941 – Madeline Gins, American painter, architect, and poet (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and painter
• 1943 – Michael Spence, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Luigi Riva is an Italian former international football player.
• 1950 Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
• 1951 - Lawrence O'Donnell, American promoter of weight loss programs
• 1951 – İlker Yasin, Turkish sports announcer
• 1952 – David Petraeus, American soldier and politician
• 1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor, screenwriter, producer and director
• 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian fantasy writer
• 1957 – King Kong Bundy, American male professional wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
• 1961 – Mark Hateley, English striker
• 1963 – John Barnes, Jamaican-born English international football player and manager
• 1964 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1967 – David Guetta, French DJ and producer
• 1967 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish female singer and musician
• 1968 – Vedat Özdemiroğlu, Turkish humorist
• 1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist, writer and ethologist
• 1969 – Dionne Rose-Henley, Jamaican athlete (d. 2018)
• 1971 – Kazım Koyuncu, Turkish musician, songwriter, actor and activist (d. 2005)
• 1971 – Robin Finck, American guitarist
• 1972 – Hasim Rahman, American World Heavyweight Champion boxer
• 1973 – Yoon-jin Kim, South Korean actress
• 1973 – Martín Palermo is an Argentine former football player.
• 1977 – Andres Oper, Estonia national football team player
• 1978 – Mohammed Ebuterike, former Egyptian national football player
• 1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English football player
• 1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch former football player
• 1979 – Ayako Fujitani, Japanese writer and actress
• 1979 - Amy Purdy is an American actress, model, Paralympic athlete, fashion designer, and author.
• 1979 - Joey Ryan is an American professional wrestler.
• 1980 – Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentine football player
• 1980 – Chaine Staelens, Dutch volleyball player
• 1981 – Gitte Aaen, Danish handball player
• 1983 – Adam DeVine, American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and dubbing artist
• 1984 - Jonathan Bornstein is an American football player.
• 1984 – Amelia Vega, Dominican model
• 1986 – Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model and TV presenter
• 1988 – Tinie Tempah, BRIT award-winning British singer
• 1989 – Yukiko Ebata, Japanese volleyball player
• 1990 – Daniel Ayala, Spanish football player
• 1990 – David De Gea, Spanish football player
• 1996 – Lorde, New Zealand musician

Deaths 

• 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery (b. 1545)
• 1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch engineer and inventor (b. 1572)
• 1766 – Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (b. 1685)
• 1862 – Bahadir Shah II, last Ruler of the Mughal Empire, poet, musician, and calligrapher (b. 1775)
• 1906 – Todor Burmov, first Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1834)
• 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, English naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist (b. 1823)
• 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1947 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician (b. 1879)
• 1958 – Aka Gündüz, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1886)
• 1959 – Victor McLaglen, English actor (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1884),
• 1965 – Besim Atalay, Turkish linguist, writer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Sami Ayanoğlu, Turkish theater, film actor, director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)
• 1974 – Eric Linklater, Scottish writer (b. 1899)
• 1980 – İlhan Erdost, Turkish publisher (b. 1944)
• 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1988 – Osman Nebioğlu, Turkish educator, writer and publisher (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Lawrence Durrell, English writer (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Gaston Monnerville, French politician (b. 1897)
• 1992 – Alexander Dubček, Czechoslovak statesman (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Cahit Uçuk, Turkish story and novelist (one of the first female writers of the Republican era) (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Sulhi Dölek, Turkish writer and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Phạm Văn Rạng, South Vietnamese former national football player (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Joe Frazier, American boxer and World heavyweight professional boxing champion (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish film actor (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Manfred Rommel, German politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Kajetan Kovic, Slovenian writer, painter, translator and journalist (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor and writer (b. 1947)
• 2016 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet and musician (b. 1934)
• 2016 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Roy Halladay, American professional Major League (MLB) baseball player (b. 1977)
• 2017 – Brad Harris, American actor, stuntman, and producer (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Hans-Michael Turistg, German actor (b. 1938)
• 2017 – Hans Schäfer, former German football player (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Francis Lai, French composer (b. 1932)
• 2019 – Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Maria Perego, Italian animator and producer (b. 1923)
• 2019 – Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and scientist (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Indian novelist, poet, children's book author and academic (b. 1938)
• 2020 – Cyril Colbeau-Justin, French filmmaker (b. 1970)

Holidays and special occasions 

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