Born On This Day:

• Daniel Boone, 1734
• Marie Antoinette, 1755
• James Knox Polk, 1795
• Warren Harding, 1865
• Paul Ford, 1901
• Luchino Visconti, 1906
• Burt Lancaster, 1913
• Ken Rosewall, 1934
• Patrick Buchanan, 1938
• Shere Hite, 1942
• Stefanie Powers, 1942
• Alfre Woodard, 1953

Died On This Day:

• St. Malachy, 1148
• Duke of Buckingham, 1483
• Richard Hooker, 1600
• Jenny Lind, 1887
• William Morris, 1932
• Simon Guggenheim, 1941
• George Bernard Shaw, 1950
• Dimitri Mitropoulous, 1960
• James Thurber, 1961
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
• Willie Sutton, 1980
• Hal Roach, 1992
• Baron Edmond de Rothschild, 1997

Today's Events:

• 1772 - The Morning Post of London first issued.
• 1783 - Continental Army disbanded.
• 1867 - Harper and Bros. in New York publishes first fashion weekly-Harper's Bazaar.
• 1889 - North and South Dakota become 39th and 40th states admitted to Union.
• 1903 - England's first women's paper, The Daily Mail, first published; not the Northcliffe paper.
• 1917 - Balfour Declaration in England says Palestine should be home for Jewish people.
• 1920 - KDKA Pittsburg, PA, becomes first radio station to broadcast regular programming.
• 1921 - Pulitzer prize winning 'Anna Christie' starts 177 performance run in NY.
• 1924 - Britain's first crossword puzzle published in Sunday Express.
• 1930 - Haile Selassie crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1936 - World's first public television broadcasting service by the BBC opens at Alexandra Palace, London.
• 1942 - British 8th Army under Gen. Bernard Montgomery defeats Germans at El Alamein.
• 1947 - Howard Hughes mammoth airplane, an H-2 Hercules 'The Spruce Goose' makes only test flight.
• 1959 - Britain's first motorway, the M1, opens its first leg with no speed limit, crash barriers or lighting.
• 1960 - Jury in London rules 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' not obscene.
• 1983 - Third Monday in January designated Martin Luther King Day in bill signed by President Ronald Reagan.
• 2000 - Vladimir Kramnik wins world chess title from Garry Kasparov in London.
• 2006 - NY Times reports world record art sale: Jackson Pollock's 'No.5 1948' sold by David Geffen for $140 million.
• 2008 - Lewis Hamilton, 23, becomes youngest and first black Formula One world racing champion.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Marcian of Cyrrhus
• Victorinus of Pettau
• All Souls

Holiday:

• All Souls' Day if today is not Sunday, tomorrow if it is
• Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico
• Feast of Pegasius

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