Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 7
- 1665: The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English newspaper, was first published.
- 1885: Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with Sir Donald Smith driving in the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1917: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin (pictured) led a coup d'état against the Russian Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the October Revolution.
- 1940: In the U.S. state of Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
- 1987: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed Habib Bourguiba to become President of Tunisia.
- 1996: NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.
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