Today in History - History - November 7th

1873Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding John A. Macdonald

1967LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

1811Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation

1931Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

1982Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic

1848General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US

1820James Monroe re-elected US president

1659Peace of Pyreneeen: French King Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV

1966Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1512Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence

1913Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960)

1943Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1975Marcus Luttrell, Houston Texas, United States Navy SEAL ("Lone Survivor")

15Agrippina the Younger [Julia Agrippina], Oppidum Ubiorum, Roman Empress (sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero)

1996Lorde [Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor], Auckland, New Zealand Singer (Royals)

1879Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], Bronshtein, Russian Empire, Russian revolutionary and Theorist [OS 26-10-1879], (d. 1940)

1984FIFA soccer player Diego Maradona (24) weds long-time fiancée Claudia Villafañe in Buenos Aires

1951Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)

1957Actress Ingrid Bergman (42) divorces Roberto Rossellini after 7 years of mariage

1982Actress Elizabeth Taylor's 7th divorce from politician John Warner

1908Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers at 42

2011Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, dies of liver cancer at 67

1962Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC

1913Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)