11-07-2004, 05:00 AM
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November 7th
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, Chemist, Physicist, recipient of two Nobel Prizes.
1874 ~ A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, was published which is considered the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster and popularizer of hypermodernism in chess.
1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature.
1917 ~ Russian Revolution began: In Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, with the assistance of Bolshevik military leader and philosopher Leon Trotsky, led his revolutionaries in a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Provisional Government.
1922 ~ Birthday of Al Hirt, Musician.
1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer.
1940 ~ In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm, four months after the bridge's completion..
1980 ~ Death of Steve McQueen, Actor.
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