Today in history: November 7 | |
| 1867: Marie Curie is born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland. She shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1903 with her French husband, Pierre, and another French researcher for their work in radioactivity. She won a second Nobel prize, this one in chemistry, in 1911 for her discovery of polonium and radium. 1873: The Liberals form their first federal government under Alexander Mackenzie. John A. Macdonald's Conservatives had resigned two days before due to a bribery scandal. 1885: The last spike is driven at Craigellachie in B.C.'s Eagle Pass, completing the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line. Donald Smith, a principal CPR shareholder, did the honours. 1983: The world's first successful single-lung transplant is performed in Toronto. Tom Hall, a 58-year-old hardware executive, lived for another six years after receiving the lung of a 13-year-old car accident victim. | |
(With files from CBC News, The Canadian Press, The Associated Press and Reuters) |
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