November 7: What happened on this day in history?

1665 The London Gazette, the longest-running newspaper still in existence, was published for the first time.

1848 Zachary Taylor was elected President of the United States.

1892 The foundation of the Darülaceze (nursing home) was laid in Istanbul.

1893 Women were granted the right to vote in the U.S. state of Colorado.

1916 Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States.

1917 October Revolution; the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. The Soviet Union was established.

1917 World War I: British forces captured Gaza, which was under the administration of the Ottoman Empire.

1918 The flu pandemic spread to Western Samoa. By the end of the year, it would cause the deaths of 7,542 people (20 percent of the population).

1921 In Italy, Mussolini declared himself the leader of the National Fascist Party.

1929 The Museum of Modern Art in New York opened to the public.

1936 Hungarian musician Bela Bartok gave a lecture at the Ankara Community Center (Halkevi).

1942 The Turkish Institute of History of the Revolution was established.

1944 Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the U.S. presidential election for the fourth time.

1953 Mosaics dating back to the Byzantine period were found in the Zeyrek Mosque in Istanbul.

1962 The Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages was signed. Turkey did not ratify this convention.

1962 In South Africa, Mandela was sentenced to 5 years in prison for leaving the country illegally.

1963 The first legal strike began in Bursa. 222 workers employed at the Bursa Municipality Bus Operations went on strike. The workers were members of the Motor Vehicle Workers' Union.

1964 President Cemal Gürsel pardoned former president Celal Bayar, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment.

1972 Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States.

1980 The detention period for collective crimes was increased from 30 days to 90 days.

1980 Publisher İlhan Erdost died in Mamak Military Prison as a result of being beaten.

1982 A public referendum was held for the 1982 Constitution. The Constitution was accepted with 91.3 percent "yes" votes.

1986 Director Zeki Ökten's film "Pehlivan" (The Wrestler) received the International Olympic Committee Award.

1987 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba was removed from office.

1988 It was announced that approximately one thousand people in prisons had been on a hunger strike for some time. The strike was being held against the practices of wearing uniforms and being shackled during transfers.

1991 Basketball star Magic Johnson announced his retirement from basketball after testing positive for HIV.

1996 A Boeing-727 passenger plane belonging to Nigerian airlines crashed into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos: 143 people died.

1999 Yasemin Dalkılıç set a world record in free diving (68 m).

2000 George W. Bush was elected President of the United States.

2001 The commercial passenger plane Concorde resumed flights after a 15-month hiatus.

2002 In a referendum held in Gibraltar, 99 percent of the public rejected the proposal regarding the sharing of sovereignty over the British colony of Gibraltar with Spain.

2003 The world's largest floating book fair, "MV Doulos," arrived at the Alsancak Port in Izmir.