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 - Nixon's last press conference
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Library of Congress

1962: Richard M. Nixon, who had failed in a bid to become governor of California, holds what he calls his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."

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