1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit. Remained law until 2013!
1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa and is mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later.
1876 President Rutherford B. Hayes and challenger Samuel J. Tilden claim presidential victory as Tilden (D) wins popular vote but Electoral College votes are disputed with Hayes (R).
…. The Welsh connection to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; On 7th November 1908, Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as the notorious train and bank robbers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, were killed, following a shootout in Bolivia.
After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued forced them to flee with Longabaugh's girlfriend, Etta Place, to Welsh speaking Patagonia in Argentina. They purchased a ranch on the east bank of the Rio Blanco near Cholila, Chubut province and lived there amongst Welsh settlers, breeding horses.
However, they had not abandoned their lawbreaking lifestyle, as it is reported that they tried to rob a general store owned by Mihangel ap Iwan and Llwyd ap Iwan (sons of Michael D Jones, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia) in Esquel, Patagonia. The story goes that Llwyd was armed and refused to give up the takings, so that night, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid returned and set light to the curtains of Llwyd's home, who badly burned his hands putting out the fire. The next day they returned to the store, shot Llwyd dead (as he was unable to reach for his gun because of his burns) and ran off with the takings.
By 1905, they had outstayed their welcome and sold the Cholila ranch. They were however aided in their escape to Bolivia by Sheriff Edward Humphreys, a Welsh settler who was friendly with Cassidy and enamoured of Etta Place. ….
The Tonypandy Riots started on 7th November 1910 and continued unabated for almost two days. They involved violent clashes between striking miners and the Glamorgan Constabulary, reinforced by both the Bristol and Metropolitan police forces. Home Secretary Winston Churchill also sent in troops to the area to reinforce the police shortly after the riot, a decision that caused ill feeling towards him in south Wales.
The strike ground on for several months although the violence of the initial riots in Tonypandy was rarely repeated and finally ended in August 1911. It left bitter scars in the Rhondda, particularly as the miners were forced to return to work after agreeing to a paltry sum for the coal extracted. Churchill was, until his dying day, reviled by many as ‘the man who sent in the troops’ and remains unpopular in the South Wales valleys to this day
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On 7th November 1916, Charles Evans Hughes lost narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election, when he failed to win California. Hughes was the Welsh speaking son of a minister who had emigrated to the US from Tredegar. He was widely regarded as honest and was respected for his intellect. He became Secretary of State in 1920 and was one of the most distinguished Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the USA.
1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1935 The Royal National Institute for the Blind distributed its first Talking Books of players and records to blind & partially sighted people.
1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London.
1996 The closure of 'Butlins - Barry Island' in south Wales, Billy Butlin's last-built and smallest holiday camp. At the time of its closure it was owned by Majestic Holidays and was sold for £2.25m to Vale of Glamorgan Council who demolished the camp and sold it to Bovis Homes for housing development. Great shame..used to do day trips to Barry Butlins.
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7 Nov 1969 Life magazine featured Paul McCartney on its cover alongside his wife Linda and family at their farm in Scotland to put an end to the widespread "Paul is dead" conspiracy theory. Life reporters tracked down McCartney at his remote farm (High Park Farm) in Kintyre, Scotland. The bizarre urban legend, sparked in part by college newspapers and fan theories claiming he died in a 1966 car crash and was replaced by a double, had grown into a global hoax.
7 Nov 1967 Reg Dwight (Elton John) and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed to DJM publishing, their signatures had to be witnessed by their parents because they were both under 21 years of age. Taupin answered an advertisement for a lyric writer placed in the New Musical Express, the pair have since collaborated on over 30 albums.
7 Nov 1967 The Beatles finished recording ‘Blue Jay Way’, ‘Flying’ and ‘Magical Mystery Tour.’ The Beatles have only six songs, not enough for an album so decided to issue a double-EP. Capitol Records didn’t think the double-EP format would be acceptable for the US market, so they decide to put out an album instead. The six "Magical Mystery Tour" songs with five of the six songs from The Beatles' 1967 singles went on side two.
7 Nov 1963 The Beatles went to Ireland to make their only two appearances ever in the country playing two shows at the Adelphi Cinema, Dublin. The group hooked up with screenwriter Alun Owen, who had been appointed to write the screenplay for The Beatles' first (as yet untitled) motion picture. Owen spent three days with The Beatles observing their hectic lifestyle.
