On this day: November 7

POSTED: 02:15 PM PST Nov 06, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 06, 2012 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid die in Bolivia, Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize, FDR wins an unprecedented fourth term, Steve McQueen dies, and Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive, all on this day.

OTD November 7 - Butch Cassidy and Sundance
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1908: Robert LeRoy Parker (front row, far right) and Harry Longabaugh (front row, far left), better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, respectively, are reportedly killed by soldiers in San Vicente, Bolivia, a few days after robbing a courier of a company's payroll worth about 15,000 Bolivian pesos.

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