Born On This Day:

• St. Augustine of Hippo, AD 354
• King Edward III, 1312
• E. J. Trelawny, 1792
• Edwin Booth, 1833
• Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850
• John Drew, 1853
• Louis Brandeis, 1856
• Hermione Baddeley, 1906
• Alexander Scourby, 1913
• William Gibson, 1914
• Nathaniel Benchley, 1915
• Oskar Werner, 1922
• Linda Christian, 1923
• Richard Mulligan, 1932
• Garry Marshall, 1934
• Jean Seberg, 1938
• Paul Simon, 1942
• Joe Mantegna, 1947
• Whoopi Goldberg, 1949
• Sammy Sosa, 1968

Died On This Day:

• Pope Nicholas the Great, AD 867
• Thomas Chippendale, 1779
• Gioacchino Rossini, 1868
• Camille Pissarro, 1903
• King Malcolm III Scotland, 1903
• Elsa Schiaparelli, 1973
• Karen Silkwood killed, 1974
• Vittorio De Sica, 1974
• R. C. Sherriff, 1975
• Prince Francis Joseph II of Liechtenstein, 1989

Today's Events:

• 1002 - Ethelred II (The Unready) orders slaughter of all Danes in his realms - St. Brice's Day Massacre.
• 1789 - Benjamin Franklin writes 'In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.'
• 1805 - Frankfurter recipe invented by Viennese butcher Johann Lehner.
• 1849 - Upwards of 50,000 attend public hanging in London of Maria and Frederick Manning; Charles Dickens protests.
• 1851 - Telegraphic services between London and Paris inaugurated.
• 1887 - 'Bloody Sunday' in London. Socialists clash with Irish in Trafalgar Square.
• 1914 - The bra patented by Mary Phelps Jacob.
• 1927 - Holland Tunnel under Hudson bet. Manhattan and Jersey City- opens to cars; first vehicular tunnel.
• 1940 - Walt Disney's 'Fantasia' premieres in New York.
• 1955 - 24,000 lb. bull African elephant killed in Angola by Hungarian J.J. Fenykovi.
• 1956 - US Supreme Court strikes down law calling for racial segregation on public buses.
• 1985 - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Columbia killing 25,000 in a mud avalanche.
• 2001 - Taliban forces driven out of Kabul by Northern Alliance soldiers. New era for Afghanistan?

Feast Day of Saint:

• Frances Cabrini
• Diego (or Didacus)
• Stanislas Kostka, Pope Nicholas I the Great (died today A.D. 867)
• Brice
• Homobonus

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