Volume 13 , Issue 45

This Day In History (November 7)

On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. Go to article.

On Nov. 7, 1867, Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, was born. Following her death on July 4, 1934, her obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary>

On This Date, November 7:

• 1893 - Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
• 1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
• 1916 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
• 1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
• 1962 - Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
• 1962 - Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died at age 78. 1972 - President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
• 1973 - Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act.

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