Born On This Day:

• King Louis XVIII France, 1755
• Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, 1887
• Lee Strasberg, 1901
• Mischa Auer, 1905
• Soichiro Honda, 1906
• Tiny Rowland, 1917
• Rock Hudson, 1925
• Peter Cook, 1937
• Gordon Lightfoot, 1939
• Martin Scorsese, 1942
• Lauren Hutton, 1943
• Tom Seaver, 1944
• Danny DeVito, 1944
• RuPaul, 1960
• Sophie Marceau, 1966

Died On This Day:

• Saint Margaret Queen of Scotland, 1093
• Queen Mary I of England (Bloody Mary), 1558
• Robert Owen, 1858
• Auguste Rodin, 1917
• Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1959
• Dame Gladys Cooper, 1971
• Gene Tunney, 1978
• Sheilah Graham, 1988
• Abba Eban, 2002

Today's Events:

• 1558 - Upon the death of Queen Mary I, 25 year-old Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, ascends throne.
• 1785 - First Church of England, King's Chapel in Boston ordains first minister James Freeman.
• 1797 - First clock patent in America granted to Eli Terry of CT. for the equation clock.
• 1800 - Congress has first session in new home in Washington, D.C. having moved from Philly.
• 1825 - Longfellow's first poem 'The Battle of Lovell's Pond' first published in Portland Maine Gazette.
• 1851 - Bald eagle appears on U.S. postage stamps for the first time.
• 1869 - First ships pass through Suez Canal.
• 1959 - Synthetic diamonds produced for the first time.
• 1973 - President Nixon gives speech saying 'I am not a crook.'

Feast Day of Saint:

• Dionysius of Alexandra
• Gregory of Tours
• Gregory the Wonderworker
• Hilda (died today A.D. 680)
• Hugh of Lincoln

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