On Nov. 7, 1867, physicist Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw.
In 1874, the Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
In 1885 the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway was completed.
In 1893 Colorado granted women the right to vote.
In 1913 novelist Albert Camus was born in Algeria.
In 1916 Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
In 1917 Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
In 1918 evangelist Billy Graham was born in Charlotte.
In 1922 jazz musician Al Hirt was born in New Orleans.
In 1929 the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened.
In 1944 President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas Dewey.
In 1962 former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt died at 78.
In 1963 the all-star film comedy “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” premiered.
In 1967 Carl Stokes of Cleveland was elected the first black mayor of a major city. Also, President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In 1980 actor Steve McQueen, 50, died in Juarez, Mexico.
In 1989 Virginia’s L. Douglas Wilder became the nation’s first African-American elected governor; David Dinkins was elected New York’s first black mayor. Also, Richard Ramirez, California’s “Night Stalker” murderer, was sentenced to death.
In 1991 basketball’s Magic Johnson announced he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS and was retiring.
In 1992 former Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek died in Prague in the Czech Republic; he was 70.
In 1998 John Glenn, the 77-year-old senator and former astronaut, returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery after a nine-day mission.
In 1999 Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
In 2004 actor Howard Keel, 85, died in Palm Desert, Calif.
