COUNTDOWN TO NOVEMBER 7TH

November 7th

From the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 to the next U.S. presidential election, set for Tuesday, November 7, 2028.

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Next: Saturday, November 7, 2026.

What Makes This Day Special

November 7th
Significance

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The October Revolution (1917)

On the night of November 6–7, 1917, Bolshevik-led Red Guards and soldiers seized key points in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), and on November 7 Lenin proclaimed the Provisional Government overthrown. Russia still used the Julian calendar, where the dates were October 24–25 — hence the name. After a blank shot from the cruiser Aurora, the Winter Palace fell in the early hours of November 8 with little bloodshed, far from the epic assault of later Soviet films. The revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power and led to civil war and, in 1922, the founding of the Soviet Union.

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U.S. Presidential Election Day 2028

The next U.S. presidential election will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2028 — the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Voters will also choose all 435 members of the House and about a third of the Senate. Election Day falls on November 7 only in certain years: past examples include 2000 and 1944, and it will again for the 2034 midterms. In 2026, the midterm elections are on November 3.

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Former Soviet Holiday

For most of the Soviet era, November 7 was the Soviet Union's main state holiday, marked with military parades on Moscow's Red Square — including the parade of November 7, 1941, when troops marched on toward the front as German forces approached the capital. After 1991, Russia renamed it the Day of Accord and Reconciliation, and in 2005 made November 4, Unity Day, the autumn public holiday instead. Belarus still keeps November 7 as October Revolution Day, a public holiday.

Historical Events

This Day
in History

2000

Hillary Clinton Elected to U.S. Senate

On the day of the contested Bush–Gore presidential election, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected U.S. senator from New York, defeating Republican Rick Lazio. She became the first First Lady elected to public office and the first woman to represent New York in the Senate. She later served as Secretary of State and in 2016 became the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. party.

1989

L. Douglas Wilder Elected Governor of Virginia

L. Douglas Wilder narrowly won the Virginia governor's race, becoming the first African American elected governor of a U.S. state. The grandson of enslaved people, he had served as Virginia's lieutenant governor and was sworn in in Richmond — the former capital of the Confederacy — in January 1990.

1944

FDR Wins a Fourth Term

Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term, defeating New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, with Harry S. Truman as his new running mate. Roosevelt died in April 1945, less than three months into the term, and Truman became president.

1940

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses

The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State collapsed in winds of about 40 mph, just four months after it opened. Nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" for its rolling motion, the bridge twisted itself apart in a failure captured on film. The collapse became a classic engineering case study and changed how suspension bridges are designed to withstand aerodynamic forces.

1867

Marie Curie Is Born

Marie Skłodowska Curie was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, sharing the 1903 physics prize, and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, adding the 1911 chemistry prize for her discovery of polonium and radium.