📜 This Day in History

November 7

• 680The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
• 1825Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.
• 1893Between 20 and 30 people were killed in the Liceu bombing, a terrorist attack by the Spanish anarchist Santiago Salvador.
• 1949Oil 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.
• 1987Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
• 2000Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.

Born on this day

• 1728James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (died 1779)
• 1867Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1934)
• 1879Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (died 1940)
• 1913Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)