TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, November 7, the 311th day of 2018. There are 54 days left in the year.

921 Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or ‘ pact of friendship’ ( amicitia), to recognize their borders along the Rhine.

1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

1786 The oldest musical organisation in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

1861 American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.

1874 A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

1900 The People’s Party is founded in Cuba.

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

1916 Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

1917 World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

1920 Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

1931 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.

1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.

1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

1972 US President Richard Nixon is re elected President.

1975 In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house- arrested Army Chief and future President MajGen. Ziaur Rahman.

1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA. 1996 Nasa launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

2004 Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60- day

“state of emergency” as US forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

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

2012 An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

2017 Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers.