TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2017 On this day in history:

1665 - The London Gazette was first published.

1861 - The first Melbourne Cup is run.

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.

1918 - During the First World War, a false report through the United Press announced that an armistice had been signed.

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. 1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Donnie LaLonde. 1991 - Magic Johnson (NBA) announced that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring from basketball. 1991 - Pro- and anti-Communists rallies took place in Moscow on the 74th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

1991 - Actor Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theatre. 1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments. 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president’s wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the US Senate. 2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.