Born On This Day:

• Thomas Chatterton, 1752
• Pope Pius VIII, 1761
• Norman Thomas, 1884
• Edwin Hubble, 1889
• Chester Gould, 1900
• Alistair Cooke, 1908
• Emilio Pucci, 1914
• Judy Canova, 1916
• Evelyn Keyes, 1919
• Robert F. Kennedy, 1925
• Kaye Ballard, 1926
• Estelle Parsons, 1927
• Don DeLillo, 1936
• Dick Smothers, 1938
• Joseph Biden, 1942
• Veronica Hamel, 1945
• Duane Allman, 1946
• Joe Walsh, 1947
• Bo Derek, 1956

Died On This Day:

• Leo Tolstoy, 1910
• Queen Alexandra, 1925
• Admiral Lord Jellicoe, 1935
• Maud Queen of Norway, 1938
• Allen Sherman, 1973
• Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain, 1975
• Robert Altman, 2006

Today's Events:

• 1272 - Edward I proclaimed King of England.
• 1637 - Peter Minuit and Swedes set sail from Gothenburg to become first Swedes in America.
• 1759 - British navy defeats French at Battle of Quiberon Bay.
• 1776 - British forces take Fort Lee (Revolutionary War).
• 1805 - Beethoven's 'Fidelio' first performed in Vienna.
• 1818 - Simon Bolivar declares Venezuela independent of Spain.
• 1820 - Whale sinks whaler - 280-ton Essex attacked and sunk by sperm whale west of Galapagos Islands.
• 1866 - Pierre Lallemont of Paris patents bicycle with rotary crank.
• 1906 - Rolls Royce motor company formed by Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce.
• 1920 - America's first municipal airport inaugurated in Tucson, Arizona.
• 1945 - Nuremberg war crimes tribunal begins; 21 Nazi defendants to be indicted including Göring & Hess.
• 1947 - Princess Elizabeth marries Prince Philip (Mountbatten) at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1947 - 'Meet the Press' starts regular series of broadcasts on NBC.
• 1966 - 'Cabaret' opens at Imperial Theatre, N.Y.
• 1992 - Fire breaks out at Windsor Castle causing enormous damage.
• 1995 - Dow Jones Industrial Average passes 5,000 for the first time.
• 2008 - Dow Jones plunges 5.6% to 7,552 as global recession fears take their toll.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Bernward
• Edmund
• Felix of Valois

Holiday:

• Revolution Day in Mexico

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