Noise.
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November 7th, 1917.
The bolshevik revolution takes place in Russia
Forces LED by Vladimir lenin
overthrow the provisional government of Alexander korean ski
What eventually emerges
The soviet union
the world's first communist state
2000.
I give you a americans vote in a presidential election whose outcome remains in limbo for more than a month
The race between republican George w bush and democrat al gore hinges on Florida's disputed electoral votes
Bush becomes president after a legal fight that leads all the way to the US supreme court
Also that same year
Hillary Clinton becomes the first first lady to win public office when she's elected to AU s Senate seat from New York
This happens 74 years to the day
the Jeannette rankin of montana becomes the first woman elected to congress
1962.
Former vice president Richard Nixon tells reporters
after losing the California governor's race as I leave you
uh I want you to know.
No.
Just think how much you're gonna be messing.
You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore because gentlemen,
this is my last press conference
But Nixon makes a comeback just six years later when he wins the White House
1940
in Washington state was considered one of the most dramatic failures in bridge engineering
The middle section of the Tacoma narrows bridge collapses during a windstorm just four months after the suspension bridge opens
No lives are lost because the bridge was already closed to traffic at the time of the collapse
1918, those 10 commandments stand
They are God's moral law
When you break them
you have sinned
Billy graham, the evangelist known for his global preaching on his friendships with American presidents
is born in Charlotte, North Carolina
1991, NBA star magic Johnson says he's retiring from the Los Angeles Lakers after testing positive for the AIDS virus
I don't know. And 1943, 87, ice the parking lot,
noise.
Joni Mitchell, singer and songwriter
is born in fort MacLeod
Alberta, Canada today in history, November 7th
Tim McGuire, associated price man.