Thursday, November 7, 2024

Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.

NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Magic Johnson announced his retirement from professional basketball due to HIV infection.

Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.

Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.

A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.

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.

The first specimens of the tufted jay (pictured) to be scientifically described were collected in Mexico.