Friday, November 7, 1997
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.
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.
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
In 1990, Mary Robinson was elected in Ireland's first
presidential election in 17 years, becoming the country's first
In 1991, NATO leaders approved an unprecedented formal link
with their former East European foes and adopted a new post-Cold
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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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.
Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1997, J.P. Morgan