Wikipedia:Main Page history/2018 November 7

"

The stag statue

• ... that a steel statue (pictured) at the entrance to the University of Surrey's Stag Hill Campus was strength-tested before being placed to ensure it could bear the weight of students attempting to climb it?
• ... that drag racer Roberta Leighton was the first woman licensed by the National Hot Rod Association to race in a Gas class?
• ... that the Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini provided a phonetic theory of voicing around 350 BCE?
• ... that Wen Fong co-founded the first Ph.D. program in Chinese art and archaeology in the United States, at Princeton University?
• ... that the crab Zebrida adamsii lives among the spines of a sea urchin?
• ... that Roman Twardy conducted the Wiesbadener Knabenchor in the first recording of a rediscovered Passion oratorio by Johann Mattheson?
• ... that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American-born citizens of Japanese descent?
• ... that Indian Medical Service officer Arthur Francis Hamilton was affectionately nicknamed "Alu", the Hindi word for potato?

Takuya Kai

• In
  a referendum, New Caledonia
  votes against independence from France.
• In baseball, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series (MVP Takuya Kai pictured).
• Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for
  blasphemy, is acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan
  , sparking widespread protests by Islamists.
• India unveils the Statue of Unity, the tallest statue in the world at 182 m (597 ft), depicting its first deputy prime minister, Vallabhbhai Patel.
• Typhoon Yutu, also known as Typhoon Rosita, makes a second landfall in the Philippines, killing 6 people and leaving at least 23 others missing.

November 7: Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, 2018)

Hillary Clinton

• 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council convened in Constantinople to take a position on the theological positions of monoenergism and monothelitism.
• 1811 – American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
• 1949 – Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan, leading to the construction of Neft Daşları, the world's first offshore oil platform.
• 1987 – Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
• was elected as a Senator, becoming the first First Lady
  to win public office in the United States.