On this day... November 7:

On this day...

November 7:  October Revolution Day in Belarus and various other regions of the former Soviet Union 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council convened inConstantinople to take a position on the theological positions of monoenergism and monothelitism. 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart (pictured), a direct ancestor ofElizabeth II of the United Kingdom, was crowned Queen of Bohemia. 1837 – American abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his printing press and abolitionist materials. 1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza when the Ottoman garrison abandoned the area. 1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.