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Bob Windle (born 1944) is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. He won the 1500 m freestyle and took bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and silver and bronze in the 4 × 200 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle relays respectively at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He is the only male swimmer to represent Australia at the Olympics in all freestyle distances from 100 m to 1500 m. During his career, Windle set six world records, won six Commonwealth Games gold medals, and won 19 Australian Championships in all distances from 220 yd to 1650 yd. He won his first national title in 1961 and made his international debut at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. After the 1964 Olympics, Windle enrolled at Indiana University, and converted to sprint swimming. He competed in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, winning three competitions, all in world record times. He competed in his second Olympics in Mexico City in 1968, racing the 100 m and 200 m freestyle and the corresponding relays. He retired after the games and worked for Allis-Chalmers in the United States, before being transferred to their Australian division. (Full article...)

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In the United States midterm elections, the Republican Party wins control of the Senate and increases its majority in the House of Representatives.
In horse racing, Protectionist wins the Melbourne Cup.
One World Trade Center (pictured), the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,776 feet (541 m), opens.
A suicide attack at Pakistan's Wagah border kills at least 60 people and injures more than 100 others.
The Juncker Commission, the European Commission that is due to serve as the European Union's executive body until 2019, takes office.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes in the Mojave Desert during a test flight, killing the co-pilot.

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On this day...

November 7: October Revolution Day in Belarus and various other regions of the former Soviet Union

680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council convened in Constantinople to take a position on the theological positions of monoenergism and monothelitism.
1619 – Elizabeth Stuart (pictured), a direct ancestor of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, was crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1837 – American abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his printing press and abolitionist materials.
1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza when the Ottoman garrison abandoned the area.
1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in December 1988 by the European Parliament as a means to honor individuals and groups of people who have dedicated their lives to the defense of human rights and freedom of thought. A shortlist of nominees is drawn up by the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Development, with the winner announced in October. The prize is accompanied by a monetary award of €50,000. The first prize was awarded jointly to South African Nelson Mandela and Russian Anatoly Marchenko. The 1990 award was given to Aung San Suu Kyi, but she could not collect it until 2013 (pictured) as a result of her political imprisonment in Burma. The prize has also been awarded to organisations, the first being the Argentine Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in 1992. Some Sakharov laureates still face harsh political oppression. 2011 laureate Razan Zaitouneh is still living in hiding in Syria. Nasrin Sotoudeh was released from prison in September 2013, and, along with fellow 2012 laureate Jafar Panahi, is still banned from leaving Iran. (Full list...)

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The North Africa series of US Silver Certificates was issued in November 1942 in denominations of 1, 5, and 10 US dollars. The notes were similar to standard circulating silver certificates, except for their bright yellow seals. They were circulated amongst US troops in Europe and North Africa during World War II, and intended to be demonetized should the American forces be defeated.

Shown here is a $10 note, which depicts former Treasury Secretary and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and carries the engraved signatures of William Alexander Julian and Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

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