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 - Marie Curie born
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1867: Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, is born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland.

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