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On This Day · The 311th day of the year

November 7

November 7 carries an unusually long memory — its events reach back as far as 680. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

♏ZodiacScorpio ◈BirthstoneTopaz ❀Birth flowerChrysanthemum

Scorpio is the sign for November 7 — read more on the Scorpio page, or see November's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on November 7?

November 7 is the 311th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 680 and 1996. Famous people born on November 7 include Marie Curie, James Cook and Ögedei Khan.

Released on November 7

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • Game Restaurats
  • Game Voidtrain
  • Movie JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution

2024

  • Game Mario & Luigi: Brothership
  • Game Chicken Police: Into the Hive!
  • Game Metro Awakening VR
  • Game Unrailed 2: Back on Track
  • TV The Day of the Jackal

2022

  • Game Sonic Frontiers

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 680

    Third Council of Constantinople

  2. 1723

    O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60

  3. 1811

    Tecumseh's War

  4. 1861

    American Civil War

  5. 1917

    World War I

  6. 1941

    World War II

  7. 1975

    Bangladesh

  8. 1987

    Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

  9. 1991

    Magic Johnson

  10. 1996

    NASA

Famous birthday twins

Born on November 7

Marie Curie

b. 1867

James Cook

b. 1728

Ögedei Khan

b. 1186

David Guetta

b. 1967

John Barnes

b. 1963

Jean Shrimpton

b. 1942

David Petraeus

b. 1952

Leon Trotsky

b. 1879

Deaths

  • 2023Frank Borman
  • 2016Leonard Cohen
  • 2013Manfred Rommel
  • 2002Rudolf Augstein
  • 1944Richard Sorge
  • 1872Alfred Clebsch

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: All Dominican Saints and Blesseds
  • —Christian feast day: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (Lutheran)
  • —Christian feast day: Engelbert II of Berg
  • —Christian feast day: Herculanus of Perugia
  • —Christian feast day: John Christian Frederick Heyer (Lutheran)
  • —Christian feast day: Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (Lutheran)
  • —Christian feast day: Prosdocimus
  • —Christian feast day: Vicente Liem de la Paz (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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