On November 7th..

Significant events:

📌1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes earth in a wheat field near village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact

📌1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later

📌1917 October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government

📌 1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

📌2000 Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case

Events:

📌 680 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens

📌921 Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other

Birthdays:

🎂630 Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)

🎂994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain

🎂1414 Jami [Mowlanā Nūr Od-dīn ʿabd Or-raḥmān Ebn Aḥmad], Persian poet (Lava’iḥ), born in Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan (d. 1492)

🎂1598 Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)

🎂1619 Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)

🎂1650 John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)

🎂1656 Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen

🎂1687 William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)

🎂1692 Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)

🎂1706 Carlo Cecere, Italian composer

🎂1750 Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)

🎂1758 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician

🎂1786 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer of Italian parentage

🎂1797 Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), (d. 1876)

🎂1805 Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)

🎂1810 Fritz Reuter, German novelist

🎂1810 Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (Himnusz), born in Gyula (d. 1893)

🎂1811 Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)

🎂1818 Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)

🎂1822 Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer

🎂1828 Ludwig Deppe, composer

🎂1832 Andrew Dickson White, educator, 1st President of Cornell University

🎂1838 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)

🎂1839 Henry Holmes, composer

🎂1846 Ignaz Brull, Moravain-born composer, born in Prostějov, Moravia (d. 1907)

🎂1851 Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)

🎂1852 Bohdan Borkowski, composer

🎂1855 Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)

🎂1856 Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)

🎂1858 Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)

🎂1860 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)

🎂1861 Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)

🎂1866 Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer

🎂1866 Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)