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On This Day

November 7

1993
Art theft: During the night, thieves cut a hole in the ceiling of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. They stole six Picassos and two Braques valued at $52 million.

1991
Magic Johnson retires from basketball after learning he had contracted the AIDS virus. He came out of retirement less than a year later.

1989
First elected black U.S. state governor: Douglas Wilder of Virginia.

1976
Gone With The Wind is first broadcast on TV, with the conclusion the following night. It received the highest rating to date for a movie on TV.

1973
Arab Oil Embargo: Pres. Nixon declares a national energy crisis in response to the embargo.

1972
Pres. Nixon is re-elected by a landslide, despite the Watergate proceedings.

1967
First black mayor of a major U.S. city: Carl Stokes is elected by Cleveland, Ohio. Another black candidate, Richard G. Hatcher, was elected mayor of Gary, Indiana.

1948
Studio One debuts on TV.

1876
Rutherford B. Hayes wins the presidential election by a single electoral vote.

1811
Battle of Tippecanoe: It provided Harrison with the presidential campaign slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

1637
Anne Hutchinson: The colonial religious leader is banished from the Massachusetts Colony for preaching that faith alone is sufficient for salvation.

1972
C.B. Barnes, American actor. TV: Day by Day (Ross Harper).

1955
Daniel Goodwin, stunt man. In 1981 he climbed the Sears Tower using rope and suction cups while wearing a Spider-Man costume.

1943
Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), Canadian Grammy-winning singer. Music: Both Sides Now (1969) and Big Yellow Taxi (1970).

1922
Al Hirt (Alois Maxwell Hirt), American Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter. Music: Java (1964, Grammy).

1918
Billy Graham (William Franklin Graham), American evangelist.

1917     d. 2002
Joe Cobb, American actor, appeared in 86 Our Gang films as Fat Joe.

1903     d. 1992
Gracie Lantz (Grace Stafford), American actress, wife of Walter Lantz. She provided the voice for her husband's famous creation Woody Woodpecker.

1903     d. 1991
Dean Jagger, American Oscar-winning actor. Film: Twelve O'Clock High (1949, Oscar).

1902     d. 1991
Edward Benton Dodd, American cartoonist, created Mark Trail (1946).

1900     d. 1945
Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official, Hitler's second in command. He organized and led the S.S. (1929), headed the Gestapo (1936), and was German interior minister (1943). He committed suicide after he was captured by the Allies.

1867     d. 1934
Madame Marie Curie, Polish-born French Nobel-winning physicist, pioneer in the study of radioactivity.

1988     b. 1926
Bill Hoest, American cartoonist, creator of The Lockhorns (1968), Agatha Crumm (1977), Laugh Parade (1980), Howard Huge (1981), and What a Guy! (1986).

1980     b. 1930
Steve McQueen, American actor. Film: The Blob (1958) and The Great Escape (1963).

1967     b. 1868
John Nance Garner, 32nd U.S. Vice-President (1933-41).

1962     b. 1884
Eleanor Roosevelt, Pres. F.D. Roosevelt's wife.

1910     b. 1828
Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, religious prophet. Writings: War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

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