Today In History

Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2019. There are 54 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1967: Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor of a major city — Cleveland, Ohio.

ON THIS DATE

› 1862: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln replaced replace Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.

› 1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

› 1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey.

› 1966: John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery in London.

› 1973: Congress overrode President Richard Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive’s power to wage war without congressional approval.

› 1991: Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV, and was retiring. (Despite his HIV status, Johnson has been able to sustain himself with medication.)

› 2005: President George W. Bush, in Panama, defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful, saying, “We do not torture.”

› 2013: Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by the closing bell, the social network was valued at $31 billion.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., is 89. Actor Barry Newman is

81. Actor Dakin Matthews is 79. Singer Johnny Rivers is 77. Former supermodel Jean Shrimpton is

77. Former CIA Director David Petraeus is 67. Jazz singer Rene Marie is 64. Actor Christopher Knight (TV: “The Brady Bunch”) is 62. Rock musician Tommy Thayer (KISS) is

59. Actress Julie Pinson is

52. Actress Michelle Clunie is 50. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is 49. Actor Christopher Daniel Barnes is 47. Actors Jeremy and Jason London are 47. Actress Yunjin Kim is 46. Actor Adam DeVine is 36. Rock musician Zach Myers (Shinedown) is 36. Actor Lucas Neff is 34. Rapper Tinie Tempah is 31. Rock singer Lorde is 23.