Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 7
- 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English newspaper, was first published.
- 1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ended on the Canadian Pacific Railway the first trans-Canada railway.
- 1917 - The October Revolution began as Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin led a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Russian Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky.
- 1940 - In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
- 1996 - NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.
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