Born On This Day:

• Abigail Adams, 1744
• Thomas Cook, 1808
• George Eliot, 1819
• André Gide, 1869
• Charles de Gaulle, 1890
• Wiley Post, 1899
• Hoagy Carmichael, 1899
• Doris Duke, 1912
• Benjamin Britten, 1913
• Rodney Dangerfield, 1922
• Geraldine Page, 1924
• Robert Vaughn, 1932
• Terry Gilliam, 1940
• Tom Conti, 1941
• Billie Jean King, 1943
• Steve Van Zandt, 1949
• Jamie Lee Curtis, 1958
• Boris Becker, 1967
• David Pelletier, 1974
• Scarlett Johansson, 1984

Died On This Day:

• Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach killed, 1718
• Robert Clive (Clive of India) suicide , 1774
• Sir Arthur Sullivan, 1900
• Frederick Krupp, 1902
• Jack London suicide, 1916
• Lorenz Hart, 1943
• John F. Kennedy assassinated, 1963
• Aldous Huxley, 1963
• C.S. Lewis, 1963
• Mae West, 1980
• Anthony Burgess, 1993
• Michael Hutchence suicide, 1997
• Mary Kay Ash, 2001

Today's Events:

• 1497 - Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope.
• 1906 - S.O.S designated the international distress signal.
• 1910 - Steel golf club shaft patented by inventor Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, N.Y.
• 1935 - Pan Am China Clipper starts first scheduled commercial flights across Pacific Ocean.
• 1946 - First biro ballpoint pen goes on sale in England.
• 1955 - RCA records signs contract with Col. Parker for recording services of Elvis Presley.
• 1961 - Robert Bolt's 'A Man for all Seasons' starts 638 performance run on Broadway.
• 1963 - Lyndon Johnson becomes President on Dallas, TX assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 1965 - 'Man of La Mancha' opens at ANTA Washington Square Theatre.
• 1968 - 'Sesame Street,' children's learning program, premieres on Public Broadcast Television.
• 1986 - Mike Tyson, 20, becomes youngest heavyweight boxing champ in history; 2 round KO of Trevor Berbick.
• 1990 - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announces plans to resign after losing Conservative Party support

Feast Day of Saint:

• Cecily

Holiday:

• Pagan Greek festival of music
• Independence Day Lebanon (1943)
• Patron Saint Cecilia celebrated on island of St. Lucia
• Zodiac: Scorpius ends, Sagittarius begins

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