Friday, Nov 7, 2025
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1832 - Birth of Andrew Dickson White educator/first President of Cornell.
1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Illinois.
1856 - Birth of Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin Vilna, tied for chess first place (1878).
1865 - London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded.
1867 - Birth of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered radium (Nobel Prize 1903, 1911).
1872 - Mary Celeste sails from New York to Genoa; found abandoned four weeks later.
1874 - First cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast.
1875 - Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa.
1876 - Birth of Culbert Olson Fillmore Utah, (Governor-Democrat-California).
1876 - Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College.
