Born On This Day:

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850
• Eugene V. Debs, 1855
• Will Durant, 1885
• Joel McCrea, 1906
• Roy Rogers, 1912
• Vivien Leigh, 1913
• Ike Turner, 1931
• Lester Piggott, 1935
• Art Garfunkel, 1941
• Elke Sommer, 1941
• Sam Shepard, 1943
• Gram Parsons, 1946
• Peter Noone, 1947
• Bryan Adams, 1959
• Tatum O'Neal, 1963

Died On This Day:

• Texas Guinan, 1933
• George M. Cohan, 1942
• Maurice Utrillo, 1955
• Ward Bond, 1960
• Mack Sennett, 1960
• Lionel Trilling, 1975
• Guy Lombardo, 1977
• Al Capp, 1979
• Vladimir Horowitz, 1989
• Rabbi Meir Kahane, 1990
• Fred MacMurray, 1991
• Robert Maxwell disappears, 1991
• Roy Boulting, 2001
• John Fowles, 2005

Today's Events:

• 1605 - After Guy Fawkes capture at midnight in the Gunpowder Plot, remaining plotters escape London.
• 1639 - First Colonial post office established in Richard Fairbanks' house in Boston.
• 1716 - William Levingston acquires property to build America's first theatre at Williamsburg, VA.
• 1854 - Victory of Britain and France over Russians at Battle of Inkerman (Crimean war).
• 1913 - Los Angeles gets water! Owens River Aqueduct opens guaranteeing 260 million gallons every day.
• 1921 - President Warren Harding proclaims Armistice Day to be a legal holiday on Nov. 11 commemorating WWI.
• 1941 - Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit' starts 657 performance run on Broadway.
• 1959 - Paddy Chayevsky's 'The Tenth Man' starts 653 performance run on Broadway.
• 1968 - Democrat Shirley Chisholm becomes first black woman to serve in House of Representatives.
• 1994 - George Foreman, 45, becomes oldest boxer to win title in any weight class; KO's Michael Moorer.
• 2006 - Iraq's High Tribunal finds Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentences him to hang.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Zachary and Elizabeth

Holiday:

• Guy Fawkes' Day in Britain. NOTE: 2005 will be the 400th Anniversary of this event! This calls for the greatest fireworks display ever!

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