November 7 is the 312th day of the year. There are 54 days remaining until the end of the year.
1805 Lewis and Clark see the Pacific Ocean for the first time
1872 The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted. The mystery remains unsolved to this day.
1874 Thomas Nast cartoon depicts elephant as Republican Party symbol despite the Republicans becoming jackasses in the 21st century.
1885 In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway extending across Canada
1907 JESUS SAVES!! Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
1940 In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey
1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1986 Something Wild is released in theaters
1989 Something wild happens in Virginia when Douglas Wilder (D) is elected 1st African-American governor in the US
1991 Earvin "Magic" Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Los Angeles Lakers. Interestingly, he is not known to be an IV drug user nor to have had a blood transfusion. Hmmm.
1997 Starship Troopers is released and a young Welsh boy goes nuts and changes his name to Casperfan!
2000 Al Gore wins the popular vote but loses the electoral vote to George W. Bush thanks to a partisan Supreme Court
2000 Hillary Clinton is the first former First Lady elected to the Senate and decides to keep her lucky blue pants suit.
2006 An unidentified flying object is sighted at Chicago O'Hare airport. There are no requests for landing instructions though.
March 24 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 272 days remaining until the end of time.
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. Undoubtedly, some of the colonists looked forward to having guests in their homes.
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith is beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio, but not enough
1837 Canada gives black men the right to vote and just look who gets to be Governor-General?!?!?
1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat, but it doesn’t stop the trash talk
1955 Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances. What’s troubling poor Brick?
1958 Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army.
1987 ACT UP's first demonstration on Wall Street, in New York City. Over 250 protested the FDA's sweetheart deal with Burroughs Wellcome to charge $10,000 a year for the only approved anti-AIDS drug, AZT. Silence = Death.
1992 A Chicago judge settles the Milli-Vanilli class-action suit by approving cash rebates of up to $3 to anyone proving they bought the group's music before November 27, 1990 — the date the lip synching scandal broke.
1996 Eastenders star Michael French is outed by the Sunday Mirror.
2001 During an exhibition game against the Giants, National League Cy Young winner Diamondback hurler Randy Johnson's fastball hits and instantly kills a dove flying in front of home plate. The bird appears to explode.
1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz], Hungarian-born US magician/escape artist/actor/debunker
Houdini with the next birthday boy. . .
1887 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, US actor/director/writer/Acquitted of any wrongdoing /career was still ruined/he used the pseudonym "William Goodrich" thereafter
1909 Clyde Barrow, bank robber/Teamed notoriously with Bonnie Parker/not nearly as pretty as Warren Beatty
