Born On This Day:

• Ivan Turgenev, 1818
• King Edward VII, 1841
• Stanford White, 1853
• Marie Dressler, 1869
• Ed Wynn, 1886
• Claude Rains, 1889
• Robert Sargent Shriver, 1915
• Florence Chadwick, 1918
• Spiro Agnew, 1918
• Dorothy Dandridge, 1922
• Hugh Leonard, 1926
• Carl Sagan, 1934
• Mikhail Tal, 1936
• Tom Weiskopf, 1942
• Lou Ferrigno, 1952

Died On This Day:

• Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., 1924
• Ramsay MacDonald, 1937
• Neville Chamberlain, 1940
• Sigmund Romberg, 1951
• Chaim Weizmann, 1952
• Dylan Thomas, 1953
• Ibn Saud Saudi Arabia, 1953
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1958
• Charles de Gaulle, 1970
• John Mitchell, 1988
• Yves Montand, 1991
• Art Carney, 2003
• Ed Bradley, 2006

Today's Events:

• 1620 - Pilgrims reach Cape Cod, MA and begin exploring the coast; 149 aboard - 1/3 Pilgrims.
• 1654 - Peter Stuyvesant signs resolution to establish America's first orphanage in NY.
• 1837 - First Jew knighted in England - Moses Montefiore.
• 1841 - Birth of Prince of Wales to Albert and Victoria. Becomes heir to throne.
• 1858 - First concert of the New York Symphony orchestra.
• 1872 - Fire in Boston destroys 800 buildings over next three days at a cost of over $875 million.
• 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates, flees to Holland. German republic proclaimed under Philip Scheidemann.
• 1938 - Nazis begin anti-Semitic persecution of Jews on 'Crystal Night' (Kristallnacht); shops, temples burned; mob rules; 30,000 Jewish men imprisoned.
• 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent.
• 1964 - Comic strip 'Wizard of Id' first published.
• 1965 - Much of Northeast including New York City blacked out; greatest power failure in history.
• 1965 - Death penalty for murder abolished in Britain.
• 1967 - Rolling Stone Magazine begins publication in San Francisco with John Lennon on cover.
• 1985 - Gary Kasparov of USSR beats Anatolij Karpov; becomes youngest chess champion at 22.
• 1989 - Berlin Wall comes down; after 28 years, East Germans permitted to travel to West Germany.
• 1990 - World heavyweight upset as Evander Holyfield TKO's Mike Tyson in the 11th round at Las Vegas.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Theodore the Recruit
• Benignus or Benen
• Vitonus or Vanne
• Nectarius Kephalas

Holiday:

• Independence Day in Cambodia

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