Today is Saturday, November 7th, the 311 day of 2015. There are 54 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Birthdays:
1867 Marie Curie, First woman to win the Nobel prize for physics
1917 Helen Suzman, South African politician and anti-apartheid campaigner
1918 Billy Graham, American evangelist
1926 Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer
1949 Su Pollard, Actress and comedienne; TV's 'Hi De Hi'
1953 Lucinda Green, British horsewoman; frequent winner of 'Badminton'
1963 John Barnes, Liverpool and England football player
Events:
1783 At Tyburn, near Marble Arch in London, Britains last public hanging took place
1872 The ship Marie Celeste sailed from New York, eventually to be found deserted
1910 The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy died
1935 Australian Sir Charles Kingford Smith was sighted over Calcutta on a flight from England, never to be seen again
1944 Franklin D.Roosevelt created a record by being elected for a fourth term as President
1957 The number one chart hit was 'That'll Be The Day' by 'The Crickets'
1972 Richard Nixon was re-elected as the US president
1999 Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) calls off over two-months-old strike.
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