Born On This Day:

• Andrea Doria, 1466
• Philip Sidney, 1554
• Jonathan Swift, 1667
• John Toland, 1670
• Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 1835
• Winston Churchill, 1874
• Donald Ogden Stewart, 1894
• Bronko Nagurski, 1908
• Gordon Parks, 1912
• Efrem Zimbalist Jr., 1918
• Virginia Mayo, 1920
• Allan Sherman, 1924
• Shirley Chisholm, 1924
• Richard Crenna, 1927
• Dick Clark, 1929
• G. Gordon Liddy, 1930
• Abbie Hoffman, 1936
• Robert Guillaume, 1937
• David Mamet, 1947
• Mandy Patinkin, 1952
• June Pointer, 1953
• Billy Idol, 1955
• Bo Jackson, 1962
• Ben Stiller, 1965

Died On This Day:

• Pope Pius VIII, 1830
• Oscar Wilde, 1900
• Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, 1916
• Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones), 1930
• Ernst Lubitsch, 1947
• Sir Compton Mackenzie, 1972
• Terence Rattigan, 1977
• Zeppo Marx, 1979
• Joyce Grenfell, 1979
• James Baldwin, 1987
• Norman Cousins, 1990
• Tiny Tim, 1996
• George Harrison, 2001
• Gertrude Ederle, 2003
• Evel Knievel, 2007

Today's Events:

• 1609 - Galileo first observes the moon through his telescope.
• 1764 - Cornerstone of Theatre Royal, Bristol, England laid-oldest theatre still in use in England.
• 1782 - U.S. and Britain sign preliminary Treaty of Paris ending U.S. War of Independence.
• 1870 - First International Association football match-England vs. Scotland.
• 1924 - First transmission of radio photographs from Britain to America.
• 1936 - Crystal Palace, London, destroyed by fire.
• 1940 - USSR invades Finland.
• 1956 - Floyd Patterson KO's Archie Moore, 42, in 5th at Chi. succeeding Marciano as heavyweight. boxing champ.
• 1989 - Japanese developer pays $51.3 m. for Picasso's 1904 'Pierrette's Wedding' at Paris auction.
• 1993 - Brady handgun bill finally becomes law requiring five-day waiting period to purchase guns in U.S.A.
• 1995 - Bill Clinton becomes first US president to visit Northern Ireland.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Andrew the Apostle
• Cuthbert Maye
• Sapor

Holiday:

• Independence Day Barbados (1966), South Yemen (1967)
• St. Andrew's Day in Scotland
• National Heroes Day in Philippines

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