Born On This Day:

• King Louis II (the Stammerer) France, AD 846
• Benvenuto Cellini, 1500
• Spencer Perceval, 1762
• King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, 1778
• Vincenzo Bellini, 1801
• Stephen Crane, 1871
• Sholem Asch, 1880
• Alexander Alekhine, 1892
• Victoria de los Angeles, 1924
• A. R. Gurney, Jr., 1930
• Gary Player, 1935
• Larry Flynt, 1942
• Keith Emerson, 1948
• Lyle Lovett, 1957
• Fernando Valenzuela, 1960

Died On This Day:

• Emperor Alexander III Russia, 1894
• Man O' War, 1947
• Elsa Maxwell, 1963
• Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated, 1963
• Andreas Georgios Papandreou, 1968
• Ezra Pound, 1972
• Mamie Eisenhower, 1979
• King Vidor, 1982
• Phil Silvers, 1985
• Skitch Henderson, 2005
• William Styron, 2006
• Yma Sumac, 2008

Today's Events:

• AD 731 - Gregory III consecrated the chapel in Saint Peter's to the memory of all saints.
• 1512 - Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel unveiled after 4 1/2 years of painting.
• 1611 - First recorded production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" before King James I and his court.
• 1695 - Bank of Scotland founded.
• 1755 - The great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal kills about 50,000.
• 1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California providing nests for swallows. See 10/23, 3/19
• 1814 - Congress of Vienna opened.
• 1848 - First medical school for women opened in Boston, (merged in 1874 to become first co-ed med school).
• 1850 - World's first photography magazine published in New York-the Daguerreian Journal.
• 1870 - U.S. Weather Bureau makes first official predictions.
• 1911 - First bomb in history dropped by Lt. Giulio Cavotti -a hand grenade from monoplane on Sahara tribe.
• 1911 - Chevrolet Motor Company of Michigan incorporated by William Durant and Louis Chevrolet.
• 1913 - The forward pass first used in a football game between Notre Dame and Army.
• 1914 - 19 year-old Mary Jacob invents soft bra.
• 1944 - Pulitzer prize winning 'Harvey' starts 1775 performance run in NY.
• 1950 - Harry S. Truman target of unsuccessful assassination attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists.
• 1954 - Revolution in Algeria.
• 1964 - Russian Orthodox Church canonizes first U.S. Saint-Father John of Cronstadt (d. 1909).

Feast Day of Saint:

• Benignus

Holiday:

• All Saints' Day (in Western churches)
• All Soul's Eve in Britain
• Revolution Day in Algeria
• Holiday in Antigua & Barbuda

Non-Specific Holiday:

• THANKSGIVING DAY (U.S.) last Thursday of November.
• TUNG CHICH, Feast of the Winter Solstice in China (sometime during the eleventh moon on the shortest day of the year)
• DIVALI (India) five day autumn festival.
• BHRATRI DWITYA, Hindu Festival of Brothers
• TUNG CHICH, Feast of the Winter Solstice in China (sometime during the eleventh moon on the shortest day of the year)
• ADVENT SUNDAY, Sunday nearest to feast of Saint Andrew (Nov. 30) whether before or after.
• HANUKKA also spelled CHANUKAH (Jewish Feast of Lights), eight day holiday beginning on 25th of lunar month Kislev.
• TSAO CHÜN, Festival of the Kitchen God in China (23rd day of the twelfth moon (or 24th in Kwantung)
• CH'U HSI, Night of the Thirtieth (29th day of the twelfth moon)
• ELEPHANT ROUNDUP AT SURIN, THAILAND celebrated third Sunday in November
• ON-MATSURI, Yamato region harvest festival in Nara, Japan
• CHICHIBU NO YO-MATSURI, Kabuki and fireworks in Japan