Born On This Day:

• George Savile, 1st marquess of Halifax, 1633
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836
• King Vittorio Emmanuel III of Italy, 1869
• King Gustav VI of Sweden, 1882
• General George Patton, 1885
• René Clair, 1898
• Pat O'Brien, 1899
• Sam Spiegel, 1903
• Alger Hiss, 1904
• Robert Ryan, 1909
• Albert Camus, 1913
• Howard Fast, 1914
• William Proxmire, 1915
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1922
• Jonathan Winters, 1925
• Carlos Fuentes, 1928
• Bibi Andersson, 1935
• Barbara Boxer, 1940
• Daniel Ortega, 1945
• 'Fuzzy' Zoeller, 1951
• Demi Moore, 1962
• Calista Flockhart, 1964
• Leonardo DiCaprio, 1974

Died On This Day:

• Nat Turner, 1831
• Kierkegaard, 1855
• Pedro V Portugal, 1861
• Ned Kelly hanged, 1880
• Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, 1917
• Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon), 1938
• Norman Bethune, 1939
• Jerome Kern, 1945
• Dale Carnegie, 1955
• Alexander Calder, 1976
• Dimitri Tiomkin, 1979
• Irv Kupcinet, 2003
• Yasser Arafat, 2004
• Peter Drucker, 2005
• Ira Levin, 2007

Today's Events:

• 1630 - Day of Dupes-Cardinal Richelieu foils attempt to dismiss him.
• 1648 - Dutch and French agree to divide the island of St. Maarten in the Leeward Islands.
• 1790 - Crysanthemums first introduced into England from China.
• 1851 - Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Mass. patents his telescope.
• 1889 - Washington becomes 42nd state admitted to Union.
• 1918 - WWI ends-armistice takes effect at 11:00 a.m. on the 11th day in the 11th month.
• 1921 - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dedicated at Arlington, VA by President Harding.
• 1939 - Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America' first performed by Kate Smith on her network radio show.
• 1966 - Last Gemini mission - Number 12 - with astronauts Lovel and Aldrin takes off.
• 1973 - Cease fire called between Israel and Egypt.
• 1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's painting 'Irises' sells for $53.9 million at New York auction.
• 1992 - Matisse's 1927-28 'Harmony in Yellow' sells for record $14.5 million at Christies, New York.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Martin of Tours
• Theodore the Studite
• Bartholomew of Grottaferrata
• Menas

Holiday:

• Veterans Day (Armistice Day) in U.S. UK and France
• Independence Day Angola (1975), Rhodesia (1965), Poland (1918)
• Remembrance Day in Canada celebrating the end of WWI in 1918
• Martin's Goose Day in Sweden, Martinmas or feast of Saint Martin

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