Reuters historical calendar - November 7

LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 7 since 1900: 1917 - Russian Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd.

1944 - US President Franklin D Roosevelt was re-elected for a record fourth term.

1959 - Victor McLaglen, the English-born film actor known for his roles in ''Fort Apache'', ''The Quiet Man'' and ''The Informer'', died.

1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D Roosevelt, died. She served for several years as a US delegate to the United Nations.

1972 - US President Richard Nixon was re-elected for a second term. In 1974, he became the first US president to resign, after the Watergate scandal.

1985 - Troops stormed Colombia's Palace of Justice in Bogota to end a 24-hour siege by gunmen of the M-19 guerrilla movement; 95 people were killed.

1987 - Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in office since independence in 1956, was overthrown in a bloodless coup.

1989 - East Germany's communist government resigned after pro-democracy protests.

1990 - Mary Robinson was elected Ireland's first woman president.

1992 - Alexander Dubcek, the 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.

1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 142 people crashed some 40 km (25 miles) from Lagos, killing all on board.

1998 - Britain's Lord Hunt, who led the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, died aged 88.

2001 - The Belgian national airline Sabena filed for bankruptcy -- the first European flag carrier to do so in the upheaval to the industry caused by the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

2002 - In a setback to talks between London and Madrid, Gibraltarians overwhelmingly voted 'No' in a referendum on a British-Spanish plan to share sovereignty of the British colony.

2003 - In Colombia, Arcangel Clavijo, a pro-government congressman, was killed by three gunmen outside Cali.

2004 - The South African playwright Gibson Kente, the founding father of black township theatre who announced he had HIV/AIDS, died aged 72.

2004 - Howard Keel, the Hollywood actor who dominated 1950s musicals, including ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'', and later revived his career on television with ''Dallas'', died aged 85.

2005 - Chile arrested Peru's disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, wanted in Peru on human rights abuse and corruption charges, a day after his arrival in Santiago.

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