Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 7
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November 7: Election Day in the United States (2006)
- 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" (pictured) in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the October Revolution in Russia.
- 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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