WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. NOVEMBER
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Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. (7. November 1957)

Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days. (7. November 1963)

Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city. (7. November 1967)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (7. November 1967)

The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. (7. November 1973)

In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day. (7. November 1975)

1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused. (7. November 1983)

In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. (7. November 1987)

Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations. (7. November 1987)

Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. (7. November 1989)

David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City. (7. November 1989)

East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests. (7. November 1989)

Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. (7. November 1990)

Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA. (7. November 1991)

WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast. (7. November 1994)

NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. (7. November 1996)

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady. (7. November 2000)

Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. (7. November 2000)

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. (7. November 2000)

SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt. (7. November 2001)

   
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