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 1893 Colorado granted women the right to vote.
In 1913 novelist Albert Camus was born in Algeria.
In 1916 Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
In 1917 Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution began as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
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 New York.
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 1978 Gene Tunney, who twice defeated Jack Dempsey for boxing’s heavyweight title in the 1920s, died at 80 in Greenwich, Conn.
In 1980 actor Steve McQueen died at 50 in Juarez, Mexico.
In 1989 Virginia’s L. Douglas Wilder became the nation’s first black elected governor; David Dinkins was elected New York’s first black mayor.
In 1991 pro basketball star Magic Johnson disclosed he had tested positive for HIV.
In 1992 former Czechoslovakia leader Alexander Dubcek, whose failed attempt to loosen the communist grip on his country became known as the Prague Spring, died at 70 in the Czech Republic.
In 1998 John Glenn, the 77-year-old senator and ex-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 2000 Hillary Clinton was elected to the Senate in New York — the first ex-first lady to win public office.
In 2004 French troops squelched an eruption of anti-French violence in Ivory Coast, its former West African colony. Also, actor Howard Keel died at 85 in Palm Desert, Calif.
