November 7

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on November 7, include:

• Election Day - November 7, 2023 (State Holiday in 11 U.S. States)
• Employee Brotherhood Day - (SpongeBob Squarepants)
  
• International Inuit Day
• International Merlot Day 
• Little League Girls Day 
• National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day 
• National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day 
• National Gin Day 
• National Hug a Bear Day - (A Stuffed Bear!)
• Notary Public Day 
• Skeptics Day International - November 7, 2023 (First Friday the 13th of the Year, and on Election Day)

2023 Weekly Holidays that include November 7, are:

• Dear Santa Letter Week - November 7-13
• Medical-Surgical Nurses Week - November 1-7
• National Fig Week - November 1-7
• Urology Nurses and Associates Week - November 1-7
  
• World Communication Week - November 1-7
• World Origami Days - October 24 - November 11

2023 Monthly Holidays that include November 7, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our November Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of November.

NOTE: A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Cricket World Cup - October 5 - November 19, 2023
• Pirates Fest - Cayman Islands National Festival - November 3-26, 2023 (Little Cayman - November 3-5, 2023; Grand Cayman - November 9-19, 2023; Cayman Brac - November 24-26, 2023) This is the Cayman Islands, National Festival and features different events such as street dances, costumes, float parade, heritage days, underwater treasure hunt, games, controlled mayhem with a mock invasion, lots of music and events for kids and teens.

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for November 7 is Scorpio.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for November are:

• Chrysanthemum - abundance, cheerfulness, compassion, friendship, secret love

Birthstone

The Birthstone(s) for November is Topaz and Citrine.

Famous Birthdays

• 1728 - James Cook, English Captain, navigator and cartographer (d. 1779)
• 1867 - Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicists, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
• 1918 - Billy Graham, American minister and author (d. 2018)
• 1943 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer, and songwriter (Clouds, Both Sides Now)

Famous Deaths

• 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, 39th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Towering Inferno) (b. 1930)
• 2016 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter, and poet (b. 1934)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1951 - American actor Frank Sinatra marries American actress Ava Gardner
• 1957 - Actress Ingrid Bergman divorces Roberto Rossellini 
• 1982 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor divorces husband John Warner

Quote of the Day

Acting Positive starts with Thinking Positive!

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

Feelings and Food - Sadness, Anxiety, Anger and Boredom are feelings often associated with food, and emotional eating. You eat when you are sad. You eat when you are anxious. You eat when you are angry. You eat when you are bored. These feelings could all be handled by distracting yourself, but different types of distraction work better for each feeling!

Find out more about Feelings and Food from Kerry's Healthy Diet Habits website!

This Day in History

• 1504 - Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and final voyage
• 1665 - The London Gazette, is first published and is the oldest surviving journal
• 1893 - Women in the United States State of Colorado are the second state to grant women the right to vote
• 1900 - The People's Party is founded in Cuba
• 1910 - The Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse have the first air freight shipment from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio
• 1913 - The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 that has winds reaching hurricane force and ultimately kill 250 and cause over $5 million in damages
• 1916 - Jeannette Rankin from Montana is the first woman elected to the United States Congress
• 1916 - Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States
• 1918 - About 20% of the population or 7,542 are killed by the end of the year when the 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa
• 1919 - Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities during the first Palmer Raid on the 2nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution
• 1929 - The Museum of Modern Art opens to the public in New York City
• 1940 - Four months after the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is completed, it collapses during a windstorm
• 1941 - During World War II, the Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes with over 5,000 people killed in the sinking
• 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a fourth term as the President of the United States
• 1967 - The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected
• 1983 - A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol causing $250,000 in damage and no injuries
• 1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor

This Day in Music

• 1786 - The Stoughton Musical Society is founded and is the oldest musical organization in the United States
• 1997 - The Titanic soundtrack is released with all instrumental songs except for Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On
• 2015 - Pentatonix scores a #1 album in the United States and is the first a cappella group to top the charts

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence!

This Day in Sports

• 1861 - The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia
• 1962 - A NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie is set by Glenn Hall
• 1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
• 1991 - Magic Johnson retires from the NBA after announcing that he is HIV-positive

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!