Born On This Day:

• Emperor Otto the Great, AD 912
• Franklin Pierce, 1804
• Billy the Kid (Henry Bonney), 1859
• Boris Karloff, 1887
• Erté, 1892
• Harpo Marx, 1893
• Victor Jory, 1903
• José Napoleon Duarte, 1925
• Lew Hoad, 1934
• Bruce Hornsby, 1955
• Kelly Brook, 1979

Died On This Day:

• Louis duc d'Orleans, 1407
• King Ladislas V Hungary, 1457
• Walter Reed, 1902
• Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen hanged, 1910
• Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1934
• Elizabeth Queen of Belgians , 1965
• André Malraux, 1976
• Merle Oberon, 1979
• Roald Dahl, 1990
• Klaus Kinski, 1991
• Roy Acuff, 1992
• Louis Malle, 1995
• Constance Cummings , 2005
• Betty Comden, 2006

Today's Events:

• 1835 - Henry Burden of Troy, NY granted patent on a machine to manufacture 60 horseshoes a minute.
• 1863 - Confederate forces driven out of Tennessee in Battle of Chattanooga.
• 1889 - World's first jukebox installed at Palais Royal Hotel in San Francisco.
• 1890 - Luxembourg separated from Netherlands on accession of Queen Wilhelmina.
• 1903 - Enrico Caruso makes American debut at Metropolitan opera in 'Rigoletto.'
• 1936 - Life Magazine first published.
• 1954 - General Motors celebrates manufacture of 50 millionth car in Flint Michigan - a gold plated Chevy.
• 1959 - Pulitzer prize winning 'Fiorello' starts 795 performance run in N.Y.
• 1971 - People's Republic of China is given the Republic of China's seat on the UN Security Council.
• 1980 - 3,000 dead in southern Italy when 6.9 earthquake hits.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Alexander Nevsky
• Felicity
• Clement I
• Columban

Holiday:

• Niiname-Sai (second harvest festival) in Japan

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