Today is Thursday, November 7: day 312 of the Gregorian year. The year will end in 54 days.
The sun will rise at 7:49 Moscow time, and at 16:39 it will go below the horizon. At 12:14 the luminary will be at its zenith.
Daylight hours will last 8 hours 49 minutes, and darkness will last 15 hours 11 minutes.
Church holidays
Week 20 after Pentecost. No fast. Commemoration day of the martyr Marcian, reader, and Martyrius.
Name days: Valery, Matryona.
Secular holidays
Today Russia and Belarus celebrate October Revolution Day.
Kyrgyzstan celebrates Information and Press Day. The country also celebrates History and Ancestors' Days on November 7 and 8.
Events of November 7
In 1917, the October Revolution took place in Russia.
In 1944, Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge was executed in Tokyo.
In 1990, mechanic Alexander Shmonov shot Mikhail Gorbachev at a festive demonstration.
In 2020, Joe Biden won the US presidential election.
Who was born on November 7th
In 1879, the revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born.
In 1888, the anarcho-communist Nestor Makhno was born.
In 1891, the writer and revolutionary Dmitry Furmanov was born.
In 1913, the writer and Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus was born.
In 1967, actress Oksana Fandera was born.
Folk omens
Snow on November 7 foretells a harsh winter.
If there is already snow, then the winter promises to be long.
Frost in the absence of snow promises a cold December.
Clear weather on this day foretells a good harvest next year.
The loud chirping of tits and sparrows promises the approach of frost.
