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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 7
- 150th: 1874 - First cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jim Watkins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Jerry - Magician).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Joe Niekro; baseball knuckler (New York Yankees).
- 80th: 1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt wins fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (Republican).
- 70th: 1954 - CBS debuts the public affairs TV program Face the Nation.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dana Plato in Maywood, California, USA; actress (Kimberly - Diff'rent Strokes).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Liam O'Maonlai; rocker (Hothouse Flowers - "Don't Go").
- 60th: 1964 - National League keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, can move to Atlanta in 1966.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Yunjin Kim; actor (Lost).
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Amelia Vega in the Dominican Republic; Miss Universe 2003.
- 30th: 1994 - WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first Internet radio broadcast.
- 30th: 1994 - Apple Computer, Motorola, and IBM announce that they will create a computer platform to run all major operating systems, except the Intel x86-based Microsoft Windows 3.1 and successors. To be included are the Mac OS, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, and Netware.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky] at age 70; jazz trumpeter, TV music composer (The Partridge Family, Starsky and Hutch, The Rookies, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island).
- 20th: 2004 - U.S. forces launch a major assault on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Howard Keel of colon cancer at age 85; actor/singer (Dallas TV show).
- 5th: 2019 - The International Criminal Court sentences former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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