On This Day: November 7, 2009
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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