TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Nov. 7, 1917

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

ON THIS DATE 1944

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

1967

Carl Stokes was elected the first Black mayor of a major city -- Cleveland, Ohio.

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.

1989

L. Douglas Wilder won the governor’s race in Virginia, becoming the first elected Black governor in U.S. history; David N. Dinkins was elected New York City’s first Black mayor.

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.