TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1665 - The London Gazette was first published.

1861 - The first Melbourne Cup is run.

1872 - The Mary Celeste sets sail, only to be mysteriously abandoned at sea, with no sign of its crew ever found.

1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada’s first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.

1911 - Australia’s Federal Parliament selects the site for the Royal Australian Naval College.

1917 - Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

1985 - The Colombian army stormed the country’s Palace of Justice. The siege claimed the lives of 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices. The Palace had been seized by leftist guerrillas belonging to the April 19 Movement.

1987 - Tunisia’s president Habib Bourguiba was overthrown. He had been president since the country’s independence in 1956.

1991 - Pro- and anti-Communists rallies took place in Moscow on the 74th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.

2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.

Birthdays

Captain James Cook 1728 British explorer, navigator

Marie Sklodowska-Curie 1867 - Scientist

Ed Dodd 1902 - Cartoonist Dean Jagger 1903 - Actor Albert Camus 1913 - Author, journalist

Billy Graham 1918 Evangelist

Dame Joan Sutherland 1926 Barry Newman 1938 - Actor Dee (Delectus) Clark 1938 Singer

Johnny Rivers 1942 - Singer Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) 1943 - Singer, songwriter

David Petraeus 1952 - U.S. Army General

Christopher Knight 1957 Actor