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November 7, 1998
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The Republican conference needs to be unified and it is time for me to move forward.
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who plans to resign from the speaker's post and Congress
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- Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to land at Cape Canaveral, Florida, following 9-day Spacelab mission with Senator John Glenn.
- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi to visit Saudi Arabia for talks on bilateral cooperation and situation in Afghanistan, Gulf region and Middle East.
- The Dalai Lama is scheduled to attend the International Conference on Tibetan Medicine.
- On Sunday, November 8, the American Academy of Ophthalmology holds its annual meeting with topics ranging from microchip surgery to "shaken baby" syndrome.
- On Monday, November 9, A House Judiciary constitution subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the history of the presidential impeachment process in Washington.
- On Tuesday, November 10, Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi is expected to begin a visit to Moscow.
- On Wednesday, November 11, this year's Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War I.
- On Thursday, November 12, newly elected Republican members of the U.S. House gather in Washington for freshman orientation and leadership elections.
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- Evangelist Billy Graham is 80.
- Jazz musician Al Hirt is 76.
- Musician Joni Mitchell is 55.
- Actor Barry Newman is 60.
- Actress Dana Plato is 34.
- Opera singer Joan Sutherland is 72.
- Singer Mary Travers is 61.
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- In 1885, Canada's first transcontinental 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 popular unrest.
- In 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon was re-elected for a second term.
- 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 1996, A Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 142 people crashed some 25 miles from Lagos, killing all on board.
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