Born On This Day:

• Edmund Halley, 1656
• Bram Stoker, 1847
• Sir Arnold Bax, 1883
• Hermann Rorschach, 1884
• Margaret Mitchell, 1900
• Katherine Hepburn, 1909
• Peter Weiss, 1916
• June Havoc, 1916
• Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 1922
• Patti Page, 1927
• Morley Safer, 1931
• Alain Delon, 1935
• Minnie Riperton, 1947
• Bonnie Raitt, 1949
• Mary Hart, 1951
• Christie Hefner, 1952
• Rickie Lee Jones, 1954
• Leif Garrett, 1961
• Gordon Ramsay, 1966
• Jack Osbourne, 1985

Died On This Day:

• Saint Martin, AD 397
• King Louis VIII of France, 1226
• John Milton, 1674
• James Christie, 1803
• Emperor Francis I of Sicily, 1830
• 'Doc' Holliday, 1887
• César Franck, 1890
• Victorien Sardou, 1908
• Edgard Varese, 1965
• Dorothy Kilgallen, 1965
• Norman Rockwell, 1978
• V. Molotov, 1986
• Kingman Brewster, 1988
• Howard Keel, 2004

Today's Events:

• 1520 - Danish King Christian II executes Swedish nobles in Stockholm bloodbath.
• 1602 - Bodleian Library founded by Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxford University; no English books allowed.
• 1605 - Guy Fawkes fellow gunpowder plotters arrested or killed by Sheriff of Worcester in Dunchurch.
• 1620 - Battle of White Mountain outside Prague, Czechoslovakia, is first battle of Thirty Years' War.
• 1793 - The Louvre, Paris' great museum, opens to the public.
• 1880 - Sarah Bernhardt makes U.S. stage debut in 'La Dame aux Camelias' at Booth's Theatre, N.Y.
• 1889 - Montana is 41st State admitted to Union.
• 1895 - Wilhelm Roentjen discovers X-rays at the University of Wurzburg in Germany.
• 1923 - Adolf Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich-attempt to overthrow Bavarian government.
• 1939 - On Anniversary of putsch, Hitler escapes bomb assassination attempt by Johann Georg Elser at Burgerbraukeller beer hall.
• 1939 - 'Life with Father' starts 3,224 performance run at Empire Theatre, NY; record for drama in U.S.
• 1942 - Allies land in North Africa.
• 1965 - British Indian Ocean Territory established joining Aldabra, Farquhar, Desroches, Chagos.
• 1965 - Soap opera 'Days of Our Lives,' premieres at noon on NBC Television; still airing 30 years later.
• 1966 - Edward W. Brooke elected first Black senator; former State Attorney of Massachusetts.
• 2006 - Art prices go crazy in New York with $493.5 million sold at Christies in auction world record; Klimt, Gauguin, Schiele set records.

Feast Day of Saint:

• The Four Crowned Ones
• Godfrey (or Geoffrey) of Amiens
• Willehad
• Cuby

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