On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place.

In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office.

In 1972, President Richard Nixon was reelected.

In 1980, actor Steve McQueen died at age 50.

In 1989, David N. Dinkins was elected New York City’s first Black mayor.

In 2013, shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time; by closing, the social network was valued at $31 billion.

In 2015, the leaders of China and Taiwan met for the first time since the foes split amid civil war 66 years earlier.

In 2017, former star baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died.

In 2018, a gunman killed 12 people at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, before apparently taking his own life.