This day in history – November 7

• 680 Third Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens.

• 921 Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other.

• 1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes earth in a wheat field near village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.

• 1512 Medici’s discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence.

• 1637 Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic.

• 1824 St Petersburg floods to 4.20m, city’s greatest flood.

• 1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later.

• 1907 Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico.

• 1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

• 1917 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government

• 1918 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets.

• 1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed.

• 1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7 542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

• 1931 Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party.

• 1940 Stravinsky’s Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago.

• 1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die.

• 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their second album “Wedding Album” in UK.

• 1976 “Gone With the Wind” televised.

• 1985 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota’s Palace of Justice

• 1990 Mary Robinson elected as first female president of Ireland.

• 1995 Howard Stern’s second book “Miss America” released (fastest selling ever).

• 1997 “Bean” directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean opens in US.

• 2000 Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for her novel “The Blind Assassin”.

• 2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products.

• 2007 Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

• 2012 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala.

• 2015 Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000).

Source: www.onthisday.com