HISTORY AT A GLANCE
TODAY is Tuesday, November 7, the 311th day of 2017. There are 54 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term
as President of the United States of America. 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daslari),
oldest offshore oil platform. 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt. 1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are
rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days. 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 Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day. 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. 1987 – Singapore’s first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations. 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be
elected President of the Republic of Ireland. 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV
and retires from the NBA. 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady. 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later
resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. 2000 – The US Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. 2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products. 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.