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 - Bolsheviks
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1917: Russia's Bolshevik Revolution takes place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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