7 November

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 7 November:

1. This date in 1867 saw the birth of Marie Curie, Polish physicist and chemist, a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person to be honoured with two Nobel Prizes, in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris. Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two new elements, Polonium and Radium. She said, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
2. Also born on this date, in 1918, was Billy Graham, US evangelist who used all the techniques of modern communication to spread the gospel to huge audiences worldwide. His theatrical sermons earned him the nickname “The preaching Windmill.” He said, "My home is in Heaven. I'm just travelling through this world."
3. In 1893, Colorado became the first state to give women the right to vote.
4. In 1960, James Henry Brett Junior, aged 111, Became the oldest person to undergo surgery as he had a hip operation.
5. In 2010, Queen Elizabeth II started a Facebook page but one was not permitted to "poke" or "befriend" her.
6. In 1921, at the chapel of St Pol in France, Brigadier-General Wyatt selected one of four bodies of British soldiers at random. They'd been brought from unmarked graves near the front line and no-one knew who they were. The selected one was brought back to England and buried as the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. The three not selected were buried in a military cemetery.
7. In 1974, Lord and Lady Lucan’s nanny was found murdered in the basement of the family home in Belgravia. Lord Lucan promptly disappeared. Reports of sightings of him in various parts of the world occurred for years.
8. In 1996, Richard Rosethal of Massachusetts was convicted of beating his wife to death and impaling her heart and lungs on a stake because she complained that he'd burnt their dinner.
9. In 2002, an Iranian man, believing that a sorcerer had made him invisible, attempted to rob a Tehran bank.
10. 1872, the cargo ship Mary Celeste sailed from New York on this date in 1872, bound for Genoa. She never got there. Four weeks later the ship was found completely abandoned, the whereabouts of the ten man crew unknown. To this day nobody knows what happened.

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