Born On This Day:

• Robert Sidney first earl of Leicester, 1563
• King Charles I, 1600
• James Garfield, 1831
• Billy Sunday, 1863
• Clifton Webb, 1891
• Imogene Coca, 1908
• Peter Drucker, 1909
• Indira Gandhi, 1917
• Alan Young, 1919
• Gene Tierney, 1920
• Roy Campanella, 1921
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1926
• Larry King, 1933
• Jack Welch, 1935
• Dick Cavett, 1936
• Ted Turner, 1938
• Garrick Utley, 1939
• Calvin Klein, 1942
• Ahmad Rashad, 1949
• Meg Ryan, 1961
• Jodie Foster, 1962

Died On This Day:

• Nicolas Poussin, 1665
• Franz Schubert, 1828
• Emma Lazarus, 1887
• Sir Basil Spence, 1976
• Stepin Fetchit, 1985
• Christina Onassis, 1988
• Stella Gibbons, 1989
• Clive Barnes, 2008

Today's Events:

• 1493 - On Second voyage to the New World, Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
• 1861 - 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' composed by Julia Ward Howe.
• 1863 - Abraham Lincoln makes Gettysburg address...'government of the people, by the people, for the...'
• 1869 - Canadian Government purchases northwest territories from Hudson Bay Company.
• 1893 - First newspaper color section appears in New York World.
• 1926 - 3,660 seat Paramount Theatre opens in New York with 756 key Wurlitzer organ.
• 1946 - First general conference of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization).
• 1954 - First automatic toll collection machine goes into service at Union Toll Plaza NJ Garden State Pkwy.
• 1969 - Soccer great Pelé scores 1,000th goal in his 909th first class soccer match at Maracana Stadium, Rio.
• 1969 - Apollo 12 second moon excursion; Pete Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean stay 32 hrs and walk twice.
• 1977 - Anwar Sadat becomes first Arab leader to visit Israel; addresses Knesset (Parliament) tomorrow.
• 1984 - Explosion in Mexico City kills 452, injures over 4,000.
• 1997 - Birth of first septuplets to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, IO, first time 7 born and survived.
• 2005 - 24 Iraqi civilians may have been shot in cold blood by US Marines in Haditha.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Barlaam of Antioch
• Elizabeth of Hungary
• Mechtilde of Hackeborn
• Narses I

Holiday:

• Discovery Day in Puerto Rico

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