11-07-2006, 05:27 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, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
1874 ~ The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster.
1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky.
1922 ~ Birthday of Al Hirt, Musician.
1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer.
1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland.
1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
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