On this day:
1916: The first woman to be elected to US Congress (Jeannette Rankin)
1917: October Revolution happened. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, took over the winter palace and ended the rule of the post-Tsarist provisional government and transferred all powers to the communists in RussiaÂ
Born on this day:
1867: Marie Curie, Polish chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1888: C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1913: Albert Camus, French author, journalist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1913: Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh/English geographer, biologist, explorer
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