Born On This Day:

• Queen Margaret Scotland, 1489
• Gaetano Donizetti, 1797
• Christian Doppler, 1803
• Louisa May Alcott, 1832
• Busby Berkeley, 1895
• C. S. Lewis, 1898
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., 1908
• Merle Travis, 1917
• Vin Scully, 1927
• Diane Ladd, 1932
• Jacques Chirac, 1932
• John Mayall, 1933
• Chuck Magione, 1940
• Garry Shandling, 1949
• Joel Coen, 1954
• Howie Mandel, 1955

Died On This Day:

• King Philippe IV France, 1314
• Roman Emperor Charles IV, 1378
• Cardinal Wolsey, 1530
• Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1682
• Empress Maria Theresa Austria, 1780
• Horace Greeley, 1872
• Giacomo Puccini, 1924
• H.L. Hunt, 1974
• Natalie Wood drowned, 1981
• Cary Grant, 1986
• Ralph Bellamy, 1991
• Frank Yerby, 1991
• Emilio Pucci, 1992
• Garry Moore, 1993
• Gene Rayburn, 1999
• John Drew Barrymore, 2004

Today's Events:

• 1816 - America's first savings bank conceived- Bank for Savings in the City of New York.
• 1890 - First Army-Navy football game played at West Point. Navy wins 24-0.
• 1897 - World's first motorcycle race held in Richmond, Surrey, England; Charles Jarrott wins.
• 1929 - Lt. Cmdr. Richard Byrd and three crewmen become first people to fly over South Pole.
• 1945 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a republic and the monarchy is abolished.
• 1947 - UN votes for partition of Palestine and creation of independent Jewish state of Israel; Arabs protest.
• 1948 - 'Untouchables' caste abolished in India.
• 1951 - U.S. explodes first underground atomic bomb at Frenchman Flat, NV.
• 1962 - French and British agree to jointly develop the Concorde supersonic plane.
• 1963 - New President Lyndon Johnson appoints Warren Commission to investigate assassination of Kennedy.

Holiday:

• Liberation Day in Albania (1944)
• St. Andrew's Eve celebrated in Poland

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