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 - Queen Elizabeth II
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2010: Queen Elizabeth II launches a page on Facebook. However, no one is allowed to "poke" or "befriend" her and the page is actually run by a media team. Still, the Queen receives more than 100,000 "likes" on the first day her Facebook page goes live.

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