Born On This Day:

• Louis Jacques Daguerre, 1787
• W. S. Gilbert, 1836
• Clarence Day, 1874
• Amelita Galli-Curci, 1882
• Eugene Ormandy, 1899
• George Gallup, 1901
• Johnny Mercer, 1909
• Alan B. Shepard, 1923
• Dorothy Collins, 1926
• Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse, 1928
• Hank Ballard, 1936
• Brenda Vaccaro, 1939
• Linda Evans, 1942
• Owen Wilson, 1968

Died On This Day:

• King William the Good of Sicily, 1189
• Chester Alan Arthur, 1886
• Marcel Proust, 1922
• Niels Bohr, 1962
• Joseph P. Kennedy, 1969
• Man Ray, 1976
• Dorothy Kirsten, 1992
• Cab Calloway, 1994
• James Coburn, 2002
• Michael Kamen, 2003

Today's Events:

• 1477 - Printer William Caxton publishes first dated English book 'The Dictes and Sayings of Philosophers.'
• 1626 - St. Peter's Church in Rome consecrated.
• 1738 - Treaty of Vienna terminates War of the Polish succession.
• 1820 - Antarctica discovered by Capt. Nathaniel Brown Palmer in the sloop 'Hero.'
• 1865 - Mark Twain's 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' first published bringing instant fame to writer.
• 1883 - Standard Time introduced in U.S.; four time zones established, Eastern, Central, Mountain & Pacific.
• 1890 - Battleship U.S.S. Maine launched.
• 1902 - Cartoon appears of Teddy Roosevelt as a hunter sparing a bear and teddy bears are born.
• 1916 - Amelita Galli-Curci makes U.S. debut in 'Lucia' in Chicago.
• 1918 - Latvia becomes independent of Russia, but it won't last.
• 1928 - First talking cartoon premieres at Colony Theatre, New York; Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie.'
• 1942 - Pulitzer prize winning 'Skin of our Teeth' starts 359 performance run in NY.
• 1963 - First Touch-Tone telephone with ten push buttons goes into service in Pennsylvania.
• 1965 - American Stock Exchange admits women members for the first time.
• 1966 - Thousand year old tradition ends-Roman Catholics no longer required to observe meatless Fridays.
• 1978 - 913 Jim Jones' People Temple Cult members in mass suicide; swallow poison Kool-Aid in Guyana.
• 1987 - 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for record $1.6 million at Rhode Island auction.
• 1991 - British Hostage Terry Waite released by pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine.
• 2001 - Lennox Lewis KOs Hasim Rahman to regain world heavyweight title winning $12 million.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Mawes
• Romanus of Antioch
• Odo of Cluny (died today A.D. 942)

Holiday:

• Independence Day/Foundation Day in Latvia (1918)
• National Day in Oman

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