These are just some of the events that happened on November 7th.
1837, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead in Illinois by a mob while trying to protect his shop from being destroyed.
1865, the first ever pocket cigarette lighter, The Erie Pocket Lighter, was manufactured by the Repeating Light Company of Springfield, Massachusetts.
1872, the ship Marie Celeste sets sail from New York eventually to be found deserted in what many consider the greatest maritime mystery of all time.
1885, after four-and-a-half years' work, the last spike was driven in to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway.
1916, Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman member of the U.S. Congress.
1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks led the overthrow of the moderate Kerensky socialist government.
1944, Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term as President of the U.S.
1961, Konrad Adenauer was elected West German Chancellor for the fourth time.
1962, American writer and wife of the 32nd President of the U.S., Eleanor Roosevelt, died.
1974, British mystery man Lord Lucan disappeared after his children's nanny was murdered and his wife seriously assaulted. He has never been seen since.
1980, American tough guy actor Steve McQueen died of cancer.
1990, Mary Robinson becomes the first woman elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1993, a team of British climbers including actor Brian Blessed were fined $98,000 for sending too many people up Everest after Nepal ruled that no more than seven foreigners could be in an expedition.
1996, a Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles south east of Lagos, killing 143.
2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
2002, Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2007, nine people are killed in a school shooting in Tuusula, Finland.
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