November 7 ⇒Detail
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893 - Sugawara no Michizane completes Shinsen Manyoshu, a collection of Japanese poetry.
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1848 - The first national election for President and Vice President is held (US).
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1861 - Battle of Belmont (American Civil War).
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1914 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay is captured by Japanese forces.
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1917 - October Revolution. The Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
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1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed.
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1936 - The Japanese Diet building is completed.
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1940 - Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm (Tacoma, Washington).
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1944 - ◆Stalin criticizes Japan as an invader at the speech.
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1944 - ◆Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as US president.
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1944 - ◆(death) Richard Sorge, Soviet spy, half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran.
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1998 - Komeito merges with the New Peace Party to become New Komeito.
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2000 - Controversial US presidential election (Bush v. Gore).
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2005 - ◆Alberto Fujimori, former President of Peru, is arrested in Chile.
November 7 ⇒Detail
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December 10, 1336 - The Ashikaga shogunate is established.
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December 26, 1949 - (birth) Jose Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate.
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December 17, 1996 - ◆The Japanese embassy hostage crisis.
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December 8, 2005 - ◆AKB48, a Japanese female idol group, debuts (Tokyo, Japan).
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December 26, 2006 - ☆(death) Gerald Ford, President of the United States.
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December 26, 2006 - ☆Earthquake near Sado Island, Japan.
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December 26, 2006 - ☆The Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hits Taiwan.
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