Today is Monday, November 7, the 312th day of 2016. There are 54 days left in the year.
1631 — Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1775 — Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1805 — Lewis & Clark 1st sight Pacific Ocean
1811 — Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
1837 — Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Ill
1865 — London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
1872 — Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later
1874 — Forst cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast
1875 — Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa