Today in History....November 7

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1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in "Harper's Weekly."
1916, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress

1917, Russian Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd

1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected for a record fourth term

1985, troops stormed Colombia's Palace of Justice in Bogota to end a 24-hour siege by gunmen of the M-19 guerrilla movement; 95 people were killed.

1987, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in office since independence in 1956, was overthrown in a bloodless coup

1989, East Germany's communist government resigned after pro-democracy protests

1996, the U.S. liquor industry voted to drop its decades-old voluntary ban on broadcast advertising

1998, John Glenn returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery, visibly weak but elated after a nine-day mission

2001,


The Bush administration targeted Osama bin Laden's multimillion-dollar financial networks, closing businesses in four states, detaining U.S. suspects and urging allies to help choke off money supplies in 40 nations

At the White House, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, allies in the war on terrorism, confidently offered back-to-back pledges of victory, no matter how long it took

The Belgian national airline Sabena filed for bankruptcy -- the first European flag carrier to do so in the upheaval to the industry caused by the 9/11 attacks on the United States