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What happened on 7 November?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 1917 Russian October Revolution (ww1 perspective) Bolsheviks seize power; Russia begins peace negotiations with Central Powers.
  2. 1911 Curie wins Nobel in Chemistry Marie Curie's second Nobel — first person to win in two sciences.
  3. 1913 Born: Albert Camus Algerian-born French writer; absurdist philosopher; Nobel laureate.
  4. 1983 Able Archer 83 exercise NATO command exercise nearly mistaken for first strike by the Soviets — Cold War's tensest moment.
  5. 1888 Born: C. V. Raman Nobel laureate physicist; the Raman effect.
  6. 1956 UN ceasefire ends Suez Crisis US and Soviet pressure forces a ceasefire and withdrawal, humiliating Britain and France.
  7. 1918 The Talune brings death to Samoa A New Zealand steamer with sick passengers is allowed to dock at Apia without quarantine, and within two months influenza kills 8,500 people — twenty-two per cent of Western Samoa.
  8. 1858 Born: Bipin Chandra Pal Indian nationalist of the early 20th century.
  9. 1916 Jeannette Rankin elected to Congress The first woman elected to the US Congress — four years before American women could vote nationwide.
  10. 1931 Mao proclaims the Jiangxi Soviet Driven out of the cities, the Communists build a state in the mountains of Jiangxi — the Chinese Soviet Republic, with Mao as chairman, its own currency, land reform and a Red Army
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