November 7 is:
This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
Publication of Federalist Paper #4: Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence written by John Jay. He argues the necessity of maintaining one nation rather than breaking the union into small confederacies. Jay addresses the issue from the point of view of Safety. In the previous article he examined “Just” causes of war. In this paper he looks at “Pretended” causes of war.
But whatever may be our situation, whether firmly united under one national government, or split into a number of confederacies, certain it is, that foreign nations will know and view it exactly as it is; and they will act toward us accordingly. If they see that our national government is efficient and well administered, our trade prudently regulated, our militia properly organized and disciplined, our resources and finances discreetly managed, our credit re-established, our people free, contented, and united, they will be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment. If, on the other hand, they find us either destitute of an effectual government (each State doing right or wrong, as to its rulers may seem convenient), or split into three or four independent and probably discordant republics or confederacies, one inclining to Britain, another to France, and a third to Spain, and perhaps played off against each other by the three, what a poor, pitiful figure will America make in their eyes! How liable would she become not only to their contempt but to their outrage, and how soon would dear-bought experience proclaim that when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves.
Battle of Tippecanoe (November 7, 1811): was fought on November 7, 1811 in Battle Ground, Indiana between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Indian forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who opposed European settlement of the American West. Harrison accomplished his goal of destroying Prophetstown and proclaimed that he had won a decisive victory. He gained the nickname “Tippecanoe”, which was popularized in the campaign song “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” during the presidential election of 1840 which Harrison won, defeating incumbent President Martin Van Buren.
Birthday of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie (November 7, 1867), Polish-French chemist and physicist, wife of Pierre Curie, both famous for their study of radioactivity.
A ship named Amazon was launched in 1860. Refitted and renamed Mary Celeste, the ship left NY on Nov 7, 1872. It was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Azores Islands, on December 5, 1872.
A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly in 1874, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
Women’s Suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado were granted the right to vote in 1893, the second state to do so. (Wyoming was first in 1869.)
Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) and the Sundance Kid (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh) were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia in 1908. They were bank robbers and train robbers fleeing the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The picture to the left is referred to as the “Fort Worth Five”, all men from Fort Worth, all outlaws. The two men standing are William “News” Carver and Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan. The three sitting are Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, aka “Sundance Kid”; Ben Kilpatrick, aka “Tall Texan”; and Robert Leroy Parker, aka “Butch Cassidy”.
The 1969 movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America in 1944.
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D Roosevelt, died at age 78 on November 7, 1962.