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Friday, November 7, 1997

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  • "Today I feel like the luckiest person in the world."

    -- Former President George Bush





    Today's events


  • Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is to visit Saudi Arabia for talks with King Fahd.

  • Tunisia is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the arrival to power of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

  • Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek is scheduled to visit Bosnia to discuss economic cooperation.

  • Queen Beatrix of Holland is scheduled to visit Egypt.

  • Colombian President Ernesto Samper and Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso are to sign anti-drug accords in Cartagena, Colombia.

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    On the horizon


  • On Saturday, November 8, the seventh Ibero-American presidential summit is to begin on Margarita Island, Venezuela

  • On Sunday, November 9, is the eighth anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall.

  • On Monday, November 10, Russian President Boris Yeltsin is scheduled to visit China.

  • On Tuesday, November 11, Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng is scheduled to visit Japan.

  • On Wednesday, November 12, the trial of Theodore Kaczynski, suspect in so-called unabomber case, is scheduled to begin in Sacramento, California.

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    On this day


  • In 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.

  • In 1811, 1,000 Americans led by General William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippencanoe Creek near what is now Lafayette, Indiana.

  • In 1837, U.S. abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was attacked and killed by a pro-slavery mob at his printing works in Alton, Illinois.

  • In 1872, the U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York on a journey which ended when it was found mysteriously abandoned the following month.

  • In 1885, Canada's first trans-continental railway, the Canadian Pacific, was completed in British Columbia.

  • In 1917, Russian Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.

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

  • In 1956, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling upon Britain, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from Egypt immediately.

  • In 1961, President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador resigned after months of increasing popular unrest.

  • In 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon was re-elected for a second term. He became the first president to resign office.

  • In 1973, U.S. and Egypt announced restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.

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

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

    In 1989, the East German government resigned after pro-democracy protests.

  • In 1990, Mary Robinson was elected in Ireland's first presidential election in 17 years, becoming the country's first woman president.

  • In 1991, NATO leaders approved an unprecedented formal link with their former East European foes and adopted a new post-Cold War strategy.

  • In 1992, Alexander Dubcek, Czech leader who sought to install "socialism with a human face" in the Prague Spring of 1968, died from injuries suffered in a car crash.

  • In 1996, A Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 142 people crashed some 25 miles from Lagos, killing all on board.

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    Newslink


    Some of natures greatest treasures may be in your own backyard. The World Wildlife Fund selects some of America's hidden treasures, and lists the "Top 10 Coolest Places You've Never Seen." Check it out to Learn more about North America's ecoregions and their species and habitats.


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    Holidays and more


  • Bangladesh marks National Solidarity Day.

  • Malaysia marks Almarhum Sultan Isamil Hol Day.

  • It's the 80th Anniversary of the October Revolution in the Russian Federation.

  • Ukraine celebrates the Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution

  • It's Arbor Day in Western Samoa.

  • Evangelist Billy Graham is 79.

  • Jazz musician Al Hirt is 75.

  • Singer Joni Mitchell is 54.

  • Actor Barry Newman is 59.

  • Actress Dana Plato is 33.

  • Opera singer Joan Sutherland is 71.

  • Singer Mary Travers is 60.

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    Sources: Associated Press,
    Chase's Calendar of Events 1997, J.P. Morgan



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