What happened on 7 November?

12 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 — considered by some one of the Cold War's tensest moments.
5. 1888 Born: C. V. Raman Nobel laureate physicist; the Raman effect.
6. 1956 Suez ceasefire takes effect US and Soviet pressure forces Britain and France to accept a ceasefire; their troops leave by 22 December and Israel's by March 1957, a humiliation for both powers.
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
11. 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees Mazarin's peace ends 24 years of war with Spain, wins Roussillon and Artois and marries Louis XIV to the Infanta — the start of French supremacy in Europe.
12. 1934 Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Twenty-four variations on Paganini's last Caprice for piano and orchestra; the eighteenth, the theme turned upside down, becomes one of the best-loved melodies ever written.