TODAY'S HISTORY

Today is Saturday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of the year.

Nov.7,1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces lead by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

In 1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.

1893, the state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.

1916, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.

1940, in Washington state, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Gallopin Gertie," collapsed during a windstorm.

1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.

1962, Richard Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, held what he called his"last press conference," telling reporters, " You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

1967, Presideny Lyndon B. Johnson was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

1973, Cogress overrode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.

1989, L. Douglas Wilder won the governer's race in Virginia,

becoming the first elected black governor in U.S. history, David N Dinkins was elected New York City's first black mayor.

Ten years ago: Relatives of the victims of EygptAir Flight 990 gathered in Newport, R.I., to bid them a wrenching farewell, a week after the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.   Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.  Kenya's Joseph Chebet won the New York City Marathon; Adriana Fernendez won the women's division.

Five years ago: France rolled out overwhelming military force to put down an explosion of anit-French violence in Ivory Coast, its former West African colony.