On This Day - 7th November

1867 - Madame Curie born
1879 - Leon Trotsky born
1903 - Dean Jagger born
1916 - The first female member of the US Congress elected
1918 - Billy Graham born
1922 - Al Hirt born
1926 - Joan Sutherland born
1943 - Joni Mitchell born
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt becomes the only US president to win a fourth term
1956 - General Dwight D Eisenhower has been returned to the White House with the biggest Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.
1959 - Keith Lockhart born
1964 - Dana Plato born
1972 - President Richard Nixon has won an overwhelming victory in the US presidential elections for a second term in the White House. Jason and Jeremy London born
1975 - A Dutch industrialist kidnapped by the IRA more than a month ago is released.
1984 - Ronald Reagan has been elected for a second term as US President in the biggest landslide since George Washington ran unopposed in 1792.
1989 - East Germany's Communist-dominated government has resigned - the first time such an event has occurred in the country's 40-year history.
1998 - American senator John Glenn, the world's oldest astronaut, has landed back on Earth aged 77 after an historic nine-day mission.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of the president, has won a seat for the Democrats in the Senate to become the only First Lady to win elective office in US history.
2001 - Republican billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been elected mayor of New York in the most expensive mayoral contest in US history.
2011 - Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician is convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of the star by a jury in Los Angeles.
2011 - Former Olympic and World Boxing Champion 'Smokin' Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer aged 67.