November 3, 1908 – Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American college and pro-football hall of fame fullback who played for the Chicago Bears, is born in Rainy River, Ontario.
November 4, 1916 – United Press International wire service correspondent and later CBS-TV news anchor Walter Cronkite is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. During his lifetime, he is widely ranked as America’s most trusted journalist.
November 6, 1861 – James Naismith, the inventor of the sport of basketball, is born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. He wrote the basketball rulebook in 1891, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic sport in 1936 and creation of the NCAA tournament in 1939.
November 7, 1867 – Marie Curie, the scientist who discovered radium and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, is born in Warsaw, Poland.