November 7

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie born (1867); Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman elected to US congress (1916); Evangelist Billy Graham born (1918); RIP Eleanor Roosevelt (1962); Magic Johnson announces his HIV-positive diagnosis (1991).

November 6

Basketball inventor Dr. James Naismith born (1861); Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama and becomes first president to make diplomatic tour outside US (1906); Bolshevik Revolution begins in Russia (1917); UN formally condemns apartheid in South Africa (1962); RIP Hollywood great Gene Tierney (1991).

Will Rogers

William Penn Adair (Will Rogers) ( November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) (aged 55) An American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Known as Oklahoma’s favorite son.

November 5

"Gone with the Wind" actress Vivien Leigh born (1913); Franklin D. Roosevelt is first and only US president elected to third term (1940); Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death (2006); HBD Google Android operating system from Google (2007).

November 4

Journalist Walter Cronkite born (1916); Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes first woman elected governor in the US (1924); HBD Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (1969); Iran hostage crisis begins (1979); Barack Obama becomes first African American elected US president (2008).

October 31

English poet John Keats born (1795); RIP Harry Houdini (1926); Mount Rushmore National Memorial is completed (1941); Actor and comedian John Candy born (1950); First female Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated (1984).

November 1

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling exhibited to public for first time (1512); Earthquake and tsunami in Lisbon kills 60-90K (1755); Silent film star Laura LaPlante born (1904); HBD Apple CEO Tim Cook (1960); RIP football great Walter Payton (1999).