On November 7

Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.

NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Magic Johnson announced his retirement from professional basketball due to HIV infection.

Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.

Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.

A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.

Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.

The first specimens of the tufted jay (pictured) to be scientifically described were collected in Mexico.

World War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman garrison.

In the congressional elections, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

American Civil War: Future U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant engaged in his first combat leadership role in the Battle of Belmont in Mississippi County, Missouri.

American abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during an attack to destroy his printing press and abolitionist materials.

Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.

Tecumseh's War: American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.

O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, a dialogue cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for Leipzig, was first performed.

The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.