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Events
1700 – Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey.
1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. For this, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1803 – In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
1824 – First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop — The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King s garden in Stockholm.
1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1902 – American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1942 – World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
1962 – The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as its 3rd UN Secretary-General.
1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 – The People s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1974 – Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia s Afar Depression.
1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
1988 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1989 – Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos s first victim.
1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1999 – In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe s largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television s all-time biggest game show haul.
2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2004 – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
2007 – Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

Births
539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
1340 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
1364 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
1466 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
1498 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
1554 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
1594 – John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
1625 – Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
1637 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
1670 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1683 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
1719 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1722 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1768 – Jedrzej Sniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 – Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1796 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
1810 – Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1813 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
1821 – Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
1835 – Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1840 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1847 – Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
1857 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)
1858 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1863 – Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)
1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 – Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
1872 – Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
1874 – Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
1898 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1904 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
1906 – Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican writer (d. 2008)
1907 – Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
1909 – Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1911 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 – Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
1915 – Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d. 1996)
1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
1920 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
1924 – Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
1924 – Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights activist (d. 2006)
1926 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Robert Guillaume, American actor
1928 – Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
1929 – Dick Clark, American television host
1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American children s television pioneer
1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
1931 – Jack Ging, American actor
1931 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
1932 – Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
1932 – Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
1933 – Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
1936 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1936 – Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
1937 – Ridley Scott, British film director
1937 – Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer
1937 – Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer
1937 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (d. 1967)
1938 – Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
1943 – Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
1945 – Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
1945 – Radu Lupu, Romanian concert pianist
1947 – David Mamet, American playwright
1947 – Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
1950 – Chris Claremont, British comic book writer
1951 – Christian Bernard, mystic
1951 – June Chadwick, British actress
1952 – Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
1952 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
1953 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1954 – Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian Actress (The Godfather)
1955 – Kevin Conroy, American Actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
1955 – Billy Idol, British musician
1955 – Richard Burr, American politician
1955 – Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
1955 – Muricy Ramalho, Brazilian manager and former football player
1957 – John Ashton, English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs)
1957 – Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
1957 – Andrew Calhoun, American musician
1957 – Margaret Spellings, current US Secretary of Education
1957 – Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
1958 – Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
1958 – Stacey Q, American singer
1959 – Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
1960 – Gary Lineker, English footballer
1960 – Rich Fields, American television personality
1962 – Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
1962 – Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
1964 – Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 – Ben Stiller, American actor
1965 – Lee Klein, American Writer
1965 – Aldair, Brazilian footballer
1965 – Prince Akishino of Japan
1966 – Wil Mara, American author
1966 – David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter
1966 – Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 Driver
1968 – Des ree, English singer
1968 – Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
1969 – Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver
1969 – Amy Ryan, American actress
1969 – Mike Stone, American musician (Queensryche)
1970 – Robert Griffith, American football player
1971 – Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 – Ray Durham, American baseball player
1972 – Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
1972 – Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer
1973 – Lim Chang-jung, South Korean actor
1973 – John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
1973 – Jason Reso (aka Christian Cage), Canadian professional wrestler
1975 – Mindy McCready, American musician
1975 – Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer
1976 – Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
1977 – Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer
1977 – Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer
1978 – Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 – Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
1978 – Emil Steiner, American writer
1979 – Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver
1979 – Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
1980 – Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
1981 – Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
1982 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
1982 – Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
1982 – Clémence Poésy, French actress
1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
1983 – Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter
1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
1984 – Omahyra Mota, Dominican model/actress
1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish Footballer
1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
1986 – Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
1987 – Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
1987 – Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
1989 – Chanel Iman, American supermodel
1989 – Margaret Nales Wilson, Filipino model
1990 – Antoine N Gossan, Ivory Coast footballer
1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess Grandmaster
1993 – Yuuri Chinen, Japanese Actor and Singer
1994 – Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder

Deaths
30 BC – Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (b. 69 BC)
1016 – Edmund II of England
1580 – Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 – Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1654 – John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 – Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
1705 – Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
1761 – John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1765 – George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
1901 – Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
1920 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1933 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
1943 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
1953 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
1954 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
1957 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1967 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
1977 – Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1987 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)
1989 – Alfred Herrhausen, German banker, murdered (Deutsche Bank) (b. 1930)]
1993 – Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1993 – David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
1994 – Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
1994 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
1994 – Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
1995 – Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 – Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
1997 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
1999 – Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2000 – Scott Smith, Canadian musician (Loverboy) (b. 1955)
2002 – Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 – Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
2005 – Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 – Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
2006 – Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
2007 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
2007 – Engin Arik, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
2008 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)

Holidays and observances
Calendar of Saints – Saint Andrew the apostle – St Andrew s Day is the national day of Scotland, and as of 2007, a bank holiday
St Andrew s Day in Eastern Orthodox Church – November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Barbados – Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)
Philippines – Andres Bonifacio Day
Official end of the Hurricane season

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Events
1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
1781 – The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia s rule in Poland begins.
1845 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 – Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
1864 – Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – Confederate advance into Tennessee misses opportunity to crush Union army. Gen. Hood angered, leads to Battle of Franklin.
1872 – Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1881 – The city of Spokan Falls (today Spokane, Washington) was officially incorporated as a city.
1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
1890 – At West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army–Navy football game.
1893 – Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1915 – Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.
1922 – Howard Carter opens the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1934 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Detroit Lions 19-16 in the first nationally broadcast game.
1943 – The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 – The Federal People s Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
1947 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan).
1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1963 – Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
1965 – Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972 – Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1983 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
1987 – A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing use all necessary means to uphold and implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 to restore international peace and security if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
2005 – The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad.

Births
1338 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (d. 1368)
1427 – Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1484 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)
1627 – John Ray, English naturalist (d. 1705)
1690 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (d. 1747)
1752 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (d. 1819)
1762 – Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
1781 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher (d. 1865)
1797 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
1798 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)
1799 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer and educator (d. 1888)
1802 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (d. 1827)
1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)
1803 – Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
1813 – Franz von Miklosich, Slovenian linguist (d. 1891)
1816 – Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)
1825 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
1831 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)
1835 – Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (d. 1908)
1849 – Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)
1856 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German statesman (d. 1921)
1857 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
1874 – Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949)
1874 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1876 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (d. 1977)
1879 – Jacob Gade, Danish composer(d. 1963)
1881 – Julius Raab, Austrian politician (d. 1964)
1888 – Joe Slater, Australian Rules footballer (d. 1917)
1894 – Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (d. 1970)
1895 – Busby Berkeley, American film director and choreographer (d. 1976)
1895 – William Tubman, Liberian politician (d. 1971)
1896 – Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
1898 – C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
1899 – Andrija Artukovic, Croatian war criminal (d. 1988)
1901 – Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
1904 – Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
1905 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1991)
1908 – Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American civil rights leader and politician (d. 1972)
1908 – N. S. Krishnan, Tamil film comedian (d. 1957)
1910 – Antanas Škema, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (d. 1961)
1915 – Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967)
1916 – Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
1917 – Merle Travis, American singer/guitarist (d. 1983)
1918 – Madeleine L Engle, American author (d. 2007)
1920 – Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician
1921 – Dagmar, American television personality (d. 2001)
1929 – Jackie Stallone, mother of Sylvester Stallone
1922 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player
1927 – Vin Scully, American baseball announcer
1928 – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter
1928 – Paul Simon, American politician (d. 2003)
1930 – Shirley Porter, English politician
1931 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
1931 – André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1932 – Jacques Chirac, French politician
1932 – Diane Ladd, American actress
1933 – John Mayall, British blues musician
1933 – James Rosenquist, American artist
1939 – Peter Bergman, American comedian
1939 – Domenico Monardo, American record producer
1940 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2007)
1940 – Chuck Mangione, American musician
1941 – Bill Freehan, American baseball player
1942 – Felix Cavaliere, American musician
1942 – Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss opera singer
1942 – Maggie Thompson, American magazine editor
1943 – Sue Miller, American author
1946 – Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter
1946 – Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban poet
1947 – Petra Kelly, German politician (d. 1992)
1947 – Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist
1949 – Stan Rogers, Canadian folk musician and songwriter (d. 1983)
1949 – Wayne Cowan, American wrestler
1949 – Jerry Lawler, American wrestler
1949 – Garry Shandling, American comedian
1951 – Barry Goudreau, American musician (Boston)
1951 – Roger Troutman, American musician (d. 1999)
1953 – Alex Grey, American artist
1953 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1954 – Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer
1954 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 2006)
1955 – Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian
1956 – Hinton Battle, American dancer
1956 – Leo Laporte, American television personality
1956 – Eric Laakso, American football player
1957 – Matthew Rubel, CEO of Collective Brands Licensing
1957 – Janet Napolitano, American politician, governor of Arizona
1958 – Michael Dempsey, English musician (The Cure)
1958 – Mario Petrucci, Anglo-Italian Poet and Ecologist
1959 – Neal Broten, American ice hockey player
1959 – Kim Delaney, American actress
1959 – Rich Camarillo, American football player
1960 – Howard Johnson, American baseball player
1960 – Cathy Moriarty, American actress
1961 – Masayoshi Yamashita, Japanese musician
1962 – Andy LaRocque Swedish musician (King Diamond)
1963 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor
1964 – Don Cheadle, American actor
1964 – Cork Graham, American journalist, actor and author
1964 – Tom Sizemore, American actor
1965 – Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
1965 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese musician (d. 1992)
1967 – John Layfield, American professional wrestler
1968 – Jonathan Knight, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
1969 – Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
1969 – Kasey Keller, American soccer player
1969 – Mariano Rivera, Panamanian baseball player
1970 – Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer
1971 – Gena Lee Nolin, American actress
1971 – Gregory Byrne, American college administrator
1972 – Brian Baumgartner, American actor
1972 – Larry Joe Campbell, American actor
1972 – Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player
1972 – Minoru Tanaka, Japanese pro-wrestler
1973 – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
1973 – Sarah Jones, American playwright
1974 – Lin Chi-ling, Taiwanese model
1974 – Pavol Demitra, Slovak ice hockey player
1975 – Younis Khan, Pakistani cricketer
1976 – Anna Faris, American actress
1976 – Michalis Kakiouzis, Greek basketball player
1976 – Ehren McGhehey, American actor
1977 – Maria Petrova, Russian figure skater
1978 – Ludwika Paleta, Polish-born actress
1978 – Alessandro Fei, Italian volleyball player
1978 – Lauren German, American actress
1978 – Dimitrious Konstantopolous, Greek footballer
1979 – Simon Amstell, English comedian and television presenter
1979 – Francis Beltrán, Dominican baseball player
1979 – Jayceon The Game Taylor, American rapper
1981 – Nicholas Teo, Malaysian singer and actor
1982 – Lucas Black, American actor
1982 – Ashley Force, American race car driver
1982 – C. David Johnson, Canadian actor
1982 – Krystal Steal, American pornographic actress
1983 – Tanner Glass, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Sitti Navarro, Philippine bossa nova artist
1985 – Shannon Brown, American basketball player
1985 – Taguchi Junnosuke, Japanese idol (KAT-TUN)
1987 – Stephen O Halloran, Irish footballer
1990 – Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit, American actors

Deaths
741 – Pope Gregory III
1253 – Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
1268 – Pope Clement IV
1314 – Philip IV of France (b. 1268)
1330 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (b. 1287)
1342 – Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (b. 1270)
1378 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
1530 – Thomas Wolsey, English religious leader (b. c.1470)
1590 – Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
1626 – Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (b. c. 1580)
1632 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
1643 – William Cartwright, English dramatist (b. 1611)
1643 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (b. 1567)
1646 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (b. 1565)
1661 – Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
1694 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (b. 1628)
1695 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1699 – Patrick Gordon, Scottish general (b. 1635)
1759 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)
1780 – Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1717)
1797 – Samuel Langdon, American university president (b. 1723)
1847 – Marcus Whitman, Washington state pioneer (b. 1802)
1924 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
1927 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
1939 – Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865)
1953 – Alfons Fryland, Austrian actor (b. 1888)
1953 – Sam De Grasse, American actor (b. 1875)
1953 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
1954 – Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
1972 – Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1888)
1974 – James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
1975 – Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)
1979 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
1980 – Dorothy Day, American journalist (b. 1897)
1980 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (b. 1923)
1981 – Fredric Wertham, German psychologist (b. 1895)
1981 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
1982 – Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
1984 – Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
1986 – Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904)
1987 – Irene Handl, English actress (b. 1901)
1991 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
1992 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1996 – Dan Flavin, American artist (b. 1933)
1998 – Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (b. 1947)
1998 – Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
1999 – Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
2001 – Mic Christopher, Irish singer and songwriter (b. 1969)
2001 – George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
2001 – John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)
2002 – Daniel Gélin, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 – George Two Ton Harris, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
2003 – Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2004 – Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (b. 1891)
2004 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2004 – John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1929)
2005 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (b. 1958)
2005 – David di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
2006 – Allen Carr, English anti-smoking campaigner (b. 1934)
2007 – Henry Hyde, American politician (b. 1924)
2007 – James Barber, Canadian chef and writer (b. 1923)
2007 – Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
2007 – Roger Bonham Smith, American automobile executive (b. 1925)
2007 – Tom Terrell, American musicologist (b. 1950)
2008 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances
Feast days of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Saint Saturnin
Saint Cuthbert Mayne, martyr
Saint Radboud
Albania – Liberation Day (Dita e Çlirimit)
Israel – Kaftet be-November (commemoration of the U.N. decision in 1947 to partition Palestine)
Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Republic Day

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 November 28th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/november-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today November 28th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1843 – Ka La Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke s Confederates.
1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago s Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1918 – Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markiewicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920 – Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
1929 – Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all the points in this game as the Cardinals defeat the Chicago Bears 40-6.
1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
1944 – Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson s call for more flags in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1972 Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet s accomplice was condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner was Andre Obrecht.
1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1975 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1979 – The Mount Erebus disaster: An Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
1982 – Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
1984 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
1987 – South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power.
1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
1994 – Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994).
1994 – In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
1997 – First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
1998 – The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
2000 – Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

Births
1118 – Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
1489 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
1570 – James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
1598 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
1628 – John Bunyan, English cleric and author (d. 1688)
1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1640 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain
1661 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
1681 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
1700 – Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
1700 – Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)
1757 – William Blake, British poet (d. 1827)
1772 – Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
1785 – Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (d. 1870)
1792 – Victor Cousin, French philosopher (d. 1867)
1793 – Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)
1805 – John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)
1810 – William Froude, British naval architect (d. 1879)
1820 – Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (d. 1895)
1829 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (d. 1894)
1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (d. 1920)
1853 – Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
1857 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
1864 – James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
1864 – Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
1866 – Henry Bacon, American architect (d. 1924)
1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1881 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (d. 1942)
1887 – Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)
1891 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
1895 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
1896 – Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)
1896 – Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1904 – Nancy Mitford, British essayist (d. 1973)
1904 – James Eastland, American politician (d. 1986)
1907 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (d. 1990)
1907 – Rose Bampton, American opera singer (d. 2007)
1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1911 – Václav Renc, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1912 – Morris Louis, American painter (d. 1962)
1915 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter
1915 – Yves Thériault, Quebec author (d. 1983)
1916 – Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
1923 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
1924 – Dennis Brutus, South African poet
1925 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
1927 – Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
1928 – John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (d. 1973)
1928 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
1929 – Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner
1931 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
1931 – Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist
1931 – Dervla Murphy, Irish cyclist and author
1932 – Ray Perkins, Canadian singer (The Crew-Cuts)
1933 – Joe Knollenberg, American politician
1935 – Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
1935 – Randolph Stow, Australian author
1936 – Gary Hart, American politician
1936 – Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
1940 – Bruce Channel, American singer
1941 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress
1942 – Paul Warfield, American football player
1943 – Randy Newman, American composer
1944 – R.B. Greaves, Guyanan singer
1944 – Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
1946 – Joe Dante, American film director and producer
1947 – Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
1947 – Maria Farantouri, Greek singer
1948 – Beeb Birtles, Dutch-Australian musician/singer-songwriter; co-founding member of Little River Band
1949 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer (d. 1995)
1949 – Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader
1950 – Ed Harris, American actor
1950 – Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 – S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress
1953 – Sixto Lezcano, Puerto Rican baseball player
1955 – Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
1955 – Jeffrey Byron, American actor
1955 – Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
1957 – David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)
1958 – Dave Righetti, American baseball player
1959 – Judd Nelson, American actor
1960 – John Galliano, British fashion designer
1961 – Martin Clunes, British actor
1961 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director
1961 – Jane Sibbett, American actress
1962 – Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor
1962 – Jon Stewart, American comedian
1962 – Matt Cameron, American drummer (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
1962 – Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1963 – Walt Weiss, American baseball player
1963 – Johnny Newman, American basketball player
1963 – Cornelia Guest, American debutante
1965 – Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
1965 – Matt Williams, American baseball player
1966 – Sam Seder, American comedian
1967 – Anna Nicole Smith, American television personality (d. 2007)
1967 – Stephnie Weir, American comedian
1967 – José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
1968 – Dawn Robinson, American singer (En Vogue)
1969 – Robb Nen, American baseball player
1969 – Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor
1970 – Álex López Morón, Spanish tennis player
1971 – Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
1971 – Fenriz, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone)
1972 – Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
1972 – Anastasia Kelesidou, Greek discus thrower
1972 – Jesper Strömblad, Swedish guitarist (In Flames)
1973 – Jade Puget, American musician (AFI)
1974 – apl.de.ap, American rapper (Black Eyed Peas)
1974 – András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
1974 – Styles P, American rapper
1974 – Kristian Schmid, Australian actor
1975 – Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian musician (Satyricon)
1975 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
1976 – Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor
1977 – DeMya Walker, American basketball player
1977 – Greg Somerville, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1977 – Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
1978 – Freddie Mitchell, American football player
1978 – Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
1978 – Brent Albright, American professional wrestler
1978 – Ryan Leslie, American producer
1978 – Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
1979 – Chamillionaire, American rapper
1979 – Joel Maximo, American professional wrestler
1979 – Daniel Henney, Korean model-actor
1980 – Stuart Taylor, British footballer
1980 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
1982 – Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
1984 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
1984 – Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Joross Gamboa, Filipino actor
1984 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
1984 – Trey Songz, American singer
1985 – Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
1988 – Christopher Stringini, American singer
1988 – Scarlett Pomers, American actress
1992 – Kianna Underwood, American actress
1994 – Lola Sanchez, American actress
1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer

Deaths
741 – St. Gregory III
1170 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)
1262 – Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)
1290 – Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1574 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 – Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1667 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
1675 – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (b. c. 1608)
1675 – Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)
1680 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
1694 – Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
1695 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer (b. c. 1637)
1695 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
1698 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
1794 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
1801 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
1815 – Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (b. 1745)
1852 – Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1859 – Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
1870 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1872 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1878 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1880 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
1890 – Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer.
1907 – Stanislaw Wyspianski, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
1912 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah The Great, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1921 – `Abdu l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá í Faith (b. 1844)
1935 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
1939 – James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)
1945 – Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)
1947 – Philippe Leclerc, French general (b. 1902)
1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1960 – Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)
1962 – Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
1963 – Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
1967 – Leon M ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
1968 – Enid Blyton, British children s author (b. 1897)
1971 – Wasfi Tel, Jordanian Prime Minister (b. 1920)
1972 – Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)
1973 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
1976 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
1977 – Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)
1977 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 – Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
1983 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)
1986 – Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
1987 – Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)
1992 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
1993 – Garry Moore, American entertainer (b. 1915)
1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
1994 – Buster Edwards, English train robber (b. 1932)
1994 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)
1997 – Georges Marchal, French actor (b. 1920)
1998 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
2000 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
2001 – William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
2001 – Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2001 – William Reid, British aviator awarded the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
2002 – Dave Snaker Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)
2003 – Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
2003 – Antonia Forest, British children s author (b. 1915)
2005 – Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
2006 – Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
2006 – Robert Volpe, Artist ,Art Theft Detective (b. 1942)
2007 – Gudrun Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances
Eastern Orthodox—Julian Calendar: Beginning of the Nativity Fast, Repose of Saint Herman of Alaska, Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky
Eastern Orthodox—Revised Julian Calendar: Martyr Stephen the New of Mount Saint Auxentius. Martyrs Basil, Stephen, two Gregories, John, Andrew,Peter, Anna, and many others
Roman Catholic Saints – Pope Gregory III and Catherine Labouré
Bahá í Faith: Holy Day – Ascension of `Abdu l-Bahá
Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii: Feast of the Holy Sovereigns in honor of King Kamehama IV and Queen Emma, the founders of the Anglican Church of Hawaii
Albania – Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912); also known as Albanian Flag Day due to other National events that correspond to this day
Mauritania – Independence Day (from France, 1960)

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 November 27th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-27th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-27th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/november-27th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today November 27th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as The Model Parliament.
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1919 – Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania s aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1964 – Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would save humanity from the ultimate disaster.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1971 – The Soviet space program s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1983 – A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid s Barajas Airport, killing 181.
1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
1992 – Two Venezuelan F-16s take part in the November Venezuelan Coup Attempt on the side of the loyalists.
1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand s history.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2005 – President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term.
2006 – The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper s motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.

Births
1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1630 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
1635 – Françoise d Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
1710 – Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
1746 – Robert Livingston, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813)
1746 – Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
1779 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1804 – Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
1809 – Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
1843 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
1843 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 – Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
1874 – Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
1878 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d. 1948).
1885 – Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian writer (d. 1944).
1894 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1897 – Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1898 – Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
1901 – Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
1909 – James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1911 – David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
1911 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
1916 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Alexander Dubcek, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
1925 – John Maddox, British science writer and editor
1925 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
1925 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
1927 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
1928 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
1928 – Ronald William Josh Kirby, British artist (d. 2001)
1930 – Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
1933 – Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker
1934 – Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
1935 – Al Jackson, American drummer, producer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1935 – Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
1937 – Gail Sheehy, American writer
1939 – Dave Giusti, American baseball player
1940 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
1942 – Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
1942 – Henry Carr, American athlete
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1943 – Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
1944 – Arthur Neddy Smith, Australian underworld figure
1945 – Barbara Anderson, American actress
1945 – Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality
1948 – James L. Avery, Sr., American actor
1949 – Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
1950 – Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
1952 – Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
1952 – Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1952 – James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
1953 – Curtis Armstrong, American actor
1953 – Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
1954 – Patricia McPherson, American actress
1954 – Kimmy Robertson, American actress best known for her role as Lucy Moran in the TV series Twin Peaks
1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
1955 – Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
1957 – Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney
1957 – Kevin O Connell, American sound re-recording mixer
1958 – Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
1960 – Ken O Brien, American football player
1960 – Kevin Henkes, American children s book writer/illustrator
1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota
1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax)
1962 – Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 – Fisher Stevens, American actor
1964 – Robin Givens, American actress
1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1967 – Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death, among others)
1968 – Michael Vartan, French actor
1970 – Brooke Langton, American actress
1970 – Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
1971 – Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
1971 – Larry Allen, American football player
1972 – Shane Salerno, American screenwriter
1973 – Samantha Harris, American model and host
1973 – Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
1973 – Twista, American rapper
1974 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor
1975 – Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American football player
1976 – Jean Grae, South African-born rapper
1976 – Jaleel White, American actor
1976 – Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Mika Tan, American pornographic actress
1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 – Shy Love, adult film actress
1978 – Radek Štepánek, Czech tennis player
1978 – Mike Skinner, English musician
1978 – Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
1979 – Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1979 – Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1980 – Michael Yardy, English cricketer
1981 – Gary Lucy, English actor
1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1984 – Domata Peko, American football player
1985 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
1985 – Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer
1986 – Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
1991 – Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean Gymnast

Deaths
8 BC – Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
450 – Galla Placidia, daughter of Roman Emperor Theodosius I and his second wife Galla (b. 392)
511 – Clovis I, King of the Franks (b. c. 466)
835 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
1198 – Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
1570 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1592 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1632 – John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1754 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 – Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1852 – Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
1901 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1920 – Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher (b. 1853)
1921 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
1931 – Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 – Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
1940 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (b. 1871)
1943 – Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944 – Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 – Eugene O Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 – Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
1973 – Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1975 – Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
1978 – Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
1978 – George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1980 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1990 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)
1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan American rock guitarist (b. 1954)
1992 – Ivan Generalic, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1998 – Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 – Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
2000 – Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2005 – Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2006 – Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 – Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname Fluff (b. 1927)
2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 – Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
2007 – Robert Cade, American doctor and inventor of Gatorade (b. 1927)
2007 – Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
2007 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)

Holidays and observances
Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)
Barlaam and Josaphat (Eastern Orthodox—Revised Julian Calendar)
Apostle Philip, Gregory Palamas (Eastern Orthodox—Julian Calendar)
Heroes Day in Belarus, (commemoration of Slutsk defence action)
Tamil Tiger Heroes day for the fallen fighters.

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-27th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 November 26th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/november-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today November 26th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
43 BC – The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian, later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1863 – American Civil War: Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1865 – Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for union of the people, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
1926 – Charles Vincent Massey assumes his post as the first Canadian Ambassador to the United States.
1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1942 – Holocaust: Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews are deported to Auschwitz on the cargo vessel Donau. This was the first step on the journey to the Auschwitz death camp. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767. 25 of the deported survived.[citation needed]
1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihac in northwestern Bosnia.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth s store on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India s constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1977 – Vrillon , claiming to be the representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command , takes over Britain s Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.
1983 – Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland s parliament.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2008 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.

Births
1288 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
1436 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
1607 – John Harvard, English-born clergyman (d. 1638)
1609 – Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
1657 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
1678 – Jean Jacques d Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
1731 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
1792 – Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
1827 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
1828 – René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905)
1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
1832 – Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
1847 – Maria Fyodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
1853 – Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
1858 – Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
1864 – Edward Higgins, 3rd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1947)
1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
1878 – Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
1879 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian (d. 1950)
1885 – Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970)
1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976)
1894 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)
1894 – James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto (d. 1974)
1895 – Bill Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1904 – Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1908 – Charles Forte, Scottish hotelier (d. 2007)
1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1909 – Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
1909 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born french playwright (d. 1994)
1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist
1919 – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer
1920 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1923 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
1924 – George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children s entertainer (d. 2001)
1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 – Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
1933 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
1937 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
1938 – Porter J. Goss, American Central Intelligence Agency director
1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
1938 – Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor
1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician
1939 – Tina Turner, American singer and actress
1939 – Wayland Flowers, American Puppeteer (d. 1988)
1941 – Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
1942 – Olivia Cole, American actress
1942 – Michael Devlin, American bass-baritone
1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
1943 – Marilynne Robinson, American writer
1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1945 – Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
1947 – Roger Wehrli, American football player
1948 – Krešimir Cosic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
1948 – Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
1949 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
1949 – Martin Lee – British singer and member of pop group Brotherhood of Man
1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, American educator
1951 – Cicciolina, Italian porno actress and politician
1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
1954 – Roz Chast, American cartoonist
1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant leader
1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
1956 – Don Lake, Canadian television writer
1956 – Keith Vaz, UK Member of Parliament
1960 – Chuck Eddy, American music journalist
1960 – Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
1961 – Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler
1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher
1963 – Adam Gaynor, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1963 – Mario Elie, American basketball player
1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
1966 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian actress and model
1967 – Ridley Jacobs, West Indian cricketer
1968 – Edna Campbell, American basketball player
1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
1969 – Kara Walker, American artist
1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
1970 – John Amaechi, American basketball player
1971 – Ronald Winky Wright, American boxer
1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
1972 – Chris Osgood, Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
1974 – Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
1975 – Patrice Lauzon, French Canadian figure skater
1976 – Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
1976 – Brian Schneider, American baseball player
1977 – Ivan Basso, Italian bicyclist
1977 – Forrest Griffin, American MMA-fighter
1977 – John Parrish, American baseball player
1977 – Paris Lenon, American football player
1978 – Matthew Taylor, American bassist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1979 – B.J. Averell, American reality television contestant
1980 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
1981 – Gina Kingsbury, Canadian hockey player
1981 – Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
1985 – Lil Fizz, American singer
1986 – Trevor Morgan, American actor
1986 – Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
1988 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese fashion model
1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer

Deaths
399 – Pope Siricius
666 – Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)
1252 – Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (b. 1188)
1326 – Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
1504 – Queen Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
1621 – Radulph Agas, English surveyor (b. c. 1540)
1639 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (b. 1565)
1651 – Henry Ireton, English Civil War general (b. 1611)
1688 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (b. 1635)
1689 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. 1635)
1717 – Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1719 – John Hudson, British classical scholar (b. 1662)
1780 – James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist (b. 1712)
1836 – John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1851 – Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
1857 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b. 1788)
1876 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)
1892 – Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
1896 – Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1919 – Felipe Ángeles, Mexican Revolution general (b. 1868)
1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German naval officer (b. 1863)
1934 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
1941 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
1941 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
1943 – Edward O Hare, American ace pilot (b. 1914)
1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
1954 – Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (b. 1905)
1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
1962 – Albert Sarraut, French politician (b. 1872)
1963 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
1974 – Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. 1903)
1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
1987 – Thomas G. Lanphier, American aviator (b. 1915)
1991 – Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft (b. 1908)
1991 – Bob Johnson, American hockey coach (b. 1931)
1994 – David Bache, British car designer (b. 1925)
1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
1996 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
1996 – Michael Bentine, British comedian (b. 1922)
1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter (b. 1941)
2001 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (b. 1943)
2002 – Verne Winchell, American doughnut entrepreneur (b. 1915)
2002 – Polo Montañez, Cuban singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2003 – Stefan Wul, French writer (b. 1922)
2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
2004 – Philippe de Broca, French film director (b. 1933)
2005 – Stan Berenstain, children s author (b. 1923)
2005 – Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
2006 – Mário Cesariny, Portuguese painter and writer (b. 1923)
2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host (b. 1933)
2006 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
2006 – Casey Coleman, American television personality (b. 1951)
2006 – Stephen Heywood, American builder (b. 1969)
2006 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish procyclist (b. 1975)
2007 – Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. (b. 1917)
2007 – Mel Tolkin, television comedy writer (b. 1913)
2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893)

Holidays and observances
R.C. saints – Pope Siricius; Sylvester Gozzolini; John Berchmans; celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris.
Eastern Orthodoxy: Saint Stylianos
Bahá í Faith: Day of the Covenant

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 November 25th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/november-history/november-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/november-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today November 25th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1755 – King Ferdinand IV of Spain grants the Beaterio dela Compania de Jesus or now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary(RVM) a royal protection.
1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1905 – The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1913 – Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 – Vojvodina, former Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on measures to take to safeguard their common interests in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
1940 – World War II: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
1947 – Red Scare: The Hollywood Ten are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1950 – The Storm of the Century, a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
1950 – The People s Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
1952 – Agatha Christie s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and was sentenced to death by firing squad.
1982 – The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson s Department Store.
1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid s Do They Know It s Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Super Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1988 – German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1992 – The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
1994 – Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
2000 – 2000 Baku earthquake.
2005 – Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released.
2007 – The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) are held in Romania.

Births
1454 – Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (d. 1510)
1501 – Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
1562 – Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright (d. 1635)
1577 – Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
1638 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
1712 – Charles-Michel de l Épée, French philanthropist and developer of Signed French (d. 1789)
1714 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
1817 – John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
1835 – Andrew Carnegie, British-born industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
1841 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
1843 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor (d. 1929)
1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
1846 – Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
1858 – Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
1862 – Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
1869 – Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
1870 – Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
1880 – John Flynn (minister), Founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951)
1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children s author (d. 1960)
1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
1883 – Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968)
1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991)
1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
1895 – Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)
1900 – Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1948)
1902 – Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
1904 – Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
1911 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host (d. 1995)
1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean Dictator (d. 2006)
1917 – Luigi Cardinal Poggi, Archivist Emeritus of the Holy Roman Church
1920 – Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
1920 – Noel Neill, American actress
1922 – Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
1923 – Mauno Koivisto, former president of Finland
1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
1926 – Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
1933 – Kathryn Grant, American actress
1936 – Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress
1939 – Martin Feldstein, American economist
1940 – Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach
1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistan Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (d. 2001)
1941 – Percy Sledge, American musician
1942 – Bob Lind, American folk singer and songwriter
1944 – Ben Stein, American actor
1945 – George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
1945 – Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984)
1947 – Jonathan Kaplan, American filmmaker
1947 – John Larroquette, American actor
1947 – Tracey Walter, American actor
1948 – Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician
1950 – Alexis Wright, Australian author
1951 – Bucky Dent, American baseball player
1951 – Bill Morrissey, American musician
1951 – Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer
1952 – John Lynch, American politician current governor of New Hampshire
1953 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American former CEO of Enron
1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian born British dancer
1956 – Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
1957 – Bob Ehrlich, Jr., former Maryland governor
1959 – Charles Kennedy, British politician
1959 – Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
1960 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)
1960 – Kasey Smith, American keyboardist
1962 – Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Kevin Chamberlin, American actor
1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer
1963 – Bernie Kosar, American football player
1964 – Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees)
1965 – Cris Carter, American football player
1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor
1966 – Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
1966 – Billy Burke, American actor
1967 – Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
1967 – Rodney Sheppard, American musician (Sugar Ray)
1967 – Gregg Turkington, American comedian (as Neil Hamburger) and musician
1968 – Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and talk show host
1968 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
1968 – Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
1968 – Erick Sermon, American rap music artist
1969 – Anthony Peeler, American basketball player
1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress
1971 – Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 – Erick Strickland, American basketball player
1976 – Donovan McNabb, American football player
1976 – Clint Mathis, American soccer player
1977 – Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player
1977 – Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver
1978 – Ringo Shiina, Japanese musician
1979 – Thea Gilmore, British songwriter
1979 – Michael Lehan, American National Football League player
1980 – John-Michael Liles, American hockey player
1980 – Josh Mathews, American professional wrestling personality
1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
1981 – Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
1981 – Jenna Bush, daughter of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
1981 – Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
1981 – Mauricio Rua, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1983 – Joey Chestnut, American competitive eater
1983 – Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter
1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
1984 – Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
1986 – Katie Cassidy, American singer and actress
1986 – Craig Gardner, English footballer
1986 – Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, inspired the AMBER Alert system (d. 1996)

Deaths
311 – Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr (b. 300)
1034 – King Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
1120 – William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
1374 – Philip II of Taranto, Titular emperor of Constantinople (b. 1329)
1456 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant
1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
1686 – Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
1694 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
1748 – Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
1785 – Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
1881 – Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
1885 – Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1948 – Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
1949 – Bill Bojangles Robinson, African American entertainer (b. 1878)
1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1955 – Louis Lachenal, French climber, one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters. On 3 June 1950, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091 m. (b. 1921)
1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1963 – Alexander Marinesko,captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, when 10,000 died while the ship sank.
1965 – Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
1968 – Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
1972 – Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)
1974 – Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1974 – U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
1978 – Elaine Esposito, American woman who holds the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
1985 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
1987 – Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
1995 – Léon Zitrone, French journalist and television host (b. 1914)
1995 – Alan Nicholls, English footballer (b. 1973)
1997 – Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
1997 – Kamuzu Banda, President of Malawi (b. c. 1898)
1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
1998 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
2000 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941)
2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
2005 – Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
2006 – Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
2006 – Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
2006 – Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
2006 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children s book publisher (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances
R.C. Saints – Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Elizabeth of Reute
Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
Suriname – Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

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Events
380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1190 – Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.
1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, an event he had predicted.
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1898 – The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
1917 – Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the headquarters of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 – World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
1947 – Red Scare: After the so-called Hollywood 10 refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against them.
1962 – The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting was broadcast live on television.
1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
1965 – Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1966 – A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
1966 – New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city s history.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D.B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money – neither he nor the money have ever been found.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed Lucy after The Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia s Afar Depression.
1992 – A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People s Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
1993 – In Liverpool, 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
2004 – Male Po?o-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2005 – Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduces a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconds. The motion is passed on November 28 leading to the dissolution of the 38th Canadian Parliament.
2006 – Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing. He is recaptured on December 8.

Births
1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)
1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465)
1420 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)
1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
1615 – Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1690)
1630 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718)
1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
1655 – Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 – Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
1713 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist (d. 1768)
1724 – Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
1729 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
1745 – Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
1774 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)
1784 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
1801 – Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
1806 – William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)
1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
1815 – Grace Darling, English heroine (d. 1842)
1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)
1833 – Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (d. 1891)
1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author (d. 1924)
1853 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (d. 1921)
1859 – Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
1868 – Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer (d. 1917)
1869 – António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
1873 – Julius Martov, Russian communiust leader (d. 1923)
1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
1876 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
1877 – Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
1877 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian CID Commissioner of Police (d. 1941)
1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1951)
1884 – Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1886 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher (d. 1973)
1887 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
1888 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
1888 – Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
1893 – Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1894 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
1899 – Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
1908 – Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2000)
1911 – Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
1912 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
1912 – Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
1912 – Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
1916 – Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer
1916 – Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
1917 – Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
1919 – David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
1921 – John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
1924 – Victor Grinich, Croatian-American businessman (d. 2000)
1925 – William F. Buckley Jr., American writer (d. 2008)
1925 – Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
1930 – Bob Friend, baseball player
1934 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
1935 – Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
1938 – Charles Starkweather, American Spree Killer (d. 1959)
1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian politician
1940 – Paul Tagliabue, retired commissioner of the National Football League
1940 – Don Metz, American architect
1940 – Eric Wilson, Canadian children s author.
1941 – Pete Best, British musician
1941 – Donald Duck Dunn, American musician (Booker T. and the M.G. s)
1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian
1942 – Marlin Fitzwater, White House Press Secretary
1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player
1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
1944 – Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
1944 – Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
1945 – Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
1946 – Penelope Jones Halsall (aka Caroline Courtney, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright, Annie Groves, Penny Jordan), English novelist
1947 – Dave Sinclair, English musician (Caravan, Hatfield and the North)
1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
1948 – Spider Robinson, science fiction author
1948 – Steve Yeager, baseball player
1949 – Shane Bourne, Australian comedian and actor
1949 – Linda Tripp, American political figure
1951 – Chet Edwards, American politician
1952 – Norbert Haug, German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz)
1952 – Thierry Lhermitte, French comedian and actor
1953 – Glenn Withrow, American actor
1954 – Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker
1955 – Ian Botham, England test cricketer
1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
1955 – Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer
1955 – Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician
1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress
1957 – Edward Stourton, British radio presenter
1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish former footballer
1958 – Alain Chabat, French actor and director
1960 – Amanda Wyss, American actress
1960 – Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer
1961 – Carlos Carnero, Spanish member of parliament
1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer
1962 – John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses)
1962 – John Kovalic, British-born cartoonist
1964 – Garret Dillahunt, American actor
1964 – Brad Sherwood, American comedian
1964 – Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
1965 – Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
1965 – Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
1966 – Russell Watson, British singer
1967 – Cal Eldred, American baseball player
1968 – Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
1968 – Todd Beamer, American, acclaimed hero of United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
1969 – Rob Nicholson, American musician
1969 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician
1970 – Julieta Venegas, Mexican singer
1970 – Doug Brien, American football player
1971 – Cosmas Ndeti, three-time Boston Marathon winner
1971 – Keith Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Stephen Merchant, British comedian
1974 – Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
1974 – Machel Montano, Trinidad & Tobago musician
1975 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
1976 – Dave Aizer, American television host
1976 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
1976 – Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
1980 – Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
1982 – Sean O Loughlin, English rugby league footballer
1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
1983 – Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress
1983 – Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress
1985 – Julia Alexandratou, Greek fashion model and singer
1985 – Tony Hunt, Football player
1987 – Megan Mullins, American singer
1989 – Johnny Exantus, Hatian footballer
1998 – Bridger Palmer, American child actor
1998 – Brecken Palmer, American child actor

Deaths
654 – Emperor Kotoku of Japan (b. 596)
1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
1541 – Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
1572 – John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
1615 – Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556)
1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566)
1722 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623)
1741 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688)
1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685)
1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703)
1781 – James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
1793 – Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)
1801 – Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
1807 – Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
1870 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
1890 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816)
1916 – Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (b. 1854)
1922 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
1929 – Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841)
1943 – Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
1956 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883)
1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
1967 – Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
1973 – John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881)
1980 – George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
1980 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
1987 – Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
1990 – Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925)
1990 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (b. 1896)
1990 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
1993 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (b. 1932)
1996 – Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911)
1999 – Hilary Minster, British Actor, Best known for his part as the General in Allo Allo (b. 1944)
2001 – Melanie Thornton, American dance/pop singer (b. 1967)
2002 – John Rawls, political philosopher (b. 1921)
2003 – Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964)
2003 – Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
2004 – Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940)
2004 – Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920)
2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
2006 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer (b. 1950)
2006 – George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943)
2006 – Zdenek Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1938)
2008 – Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
2008 – Kenny MacLean, Scottish musician (Platinum Blonde) (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances
Roman festivals – in the Byzantine empire the Brumalia (a wine festival) were celebrated from this day until the winter solstice
R.C. Saints – Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs, Saint Colman of Cloyne – Cobh, Ireland, Flavian of Ricina
Teacher s Day in Turkey
Lachit Divas is observed on 24th November each year in Assam, India to commemorate the heroism of the Assamese General Lachit Borphukan and the victory of Assamese army over the Mughal army in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671.
Evolution Day

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Events
800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gasawa.
1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1531 – The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published.
1654 – French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1844 – Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
1890 – General elections in Italy.
1903 – Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners strike.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1936 – The first edition of Life is published.
1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
1946 – The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals.
1971 – The representatives of the People s Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as China s representatives (See China and the United Nations).
1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.
1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
1990 – The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.
1996 – The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
1998 – Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh.
2001 – Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2003 – Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.
2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.

Births
912 – Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
1221 – King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
1632 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1749 – Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)
1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (d. 1853)
1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, Leading abolitionist of American Slavery (d. 1895)
1804 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
1820 – Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1859 – Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)
1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
1861 – Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
1887 – Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
1887 – Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league identity (d. 1964)
1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 – Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial arts Master (d. 1974)
1897 – Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
1902 – Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
1909 – Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)
1912 – George O Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 – Michael Gough, English actor
1914 – Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998)
1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-born German poet (d. 1970)
1920 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
1923 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
1923 – Daniel Brewster, American democrat (d. 2007)
1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
1924 – Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
1924 – Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)
1924 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
1925 – Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician (d. 1990)
1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1927 – Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
1928 – Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer
1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball manager
1931 – Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
1931 – Gloria Lynne, American singer
1932 – Michel David-Weill, French investment banker
1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary
1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
1934 – Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director
1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
1936 – Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
1938 – Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
1939 – Betty Everett, American singer (d. 2001)
1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player
1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor
1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
1943 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1943 – Sue Nicholls, British actress
1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
1944 – James Toback, American writer and director
1945 – Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter
1945 – Jim Doyle, American politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
1945 – Steve Landesberg, American actor
1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
1946 – Bobby Rush, American politician
1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host
1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer
1949 – Sandra Stevens, British singer, member of pop group Brotherhood of Man
1950 – Chuck Schumer, American politician
1951 – David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
1952 – Bill Troiano, musician
1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer
1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer
1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American musician
1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
1954 – Ross Brawn, British Honda Racing F1 team principal
1955 – Steven Brust, American author
1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician, senior senator of Louisiana
1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
1959 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
1960 – Robin Roberts, American television reporter
1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
1963 – Joe Ahearne, British television director
1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)
1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete
1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
1966 – Jerry Kelly, American professional golfer
1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer
1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
1969 – Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
1970 – Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli actor
1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor
1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
1972 – Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God)
1973 – Trick Daddy, American rapper
1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican professional wrestler
1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor
1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese professional wrestler
1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor
1979 – Nihat, Turkish football player
1979 – Kelly Brook, English actress/model
1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra-Leone born American author
1980 – David Britz, American nano-technologist
1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player
1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
1983 – Thomas Pridgen, American musician
1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
1985 – Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion and Luke David O Rourke famous Gunzel of Canberra
1992 – Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer/songwriter

Deaths
947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
955 – Edred, King of England (b. c.923)
1407 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372)
1457 – King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440)
1499 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474)
1503 – Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)
1503 – Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
1572 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1682 – Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
1763 – Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
1783 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
1803 – Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
1804 – Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
1814 – Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
1902 – Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851)
1923 – Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
1937 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1966 – Seán T. O Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (b. 1910)
1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
1974 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial arts Master (b. 1899)
1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b. 1920)
1976 – André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)
1979 – Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
1979 – Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
1990 – Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)
1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
1991 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
1992 – Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
1994 – Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
1994 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939)
1995 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
1995 – Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943)
1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American jazz musician (b. 1961)
1997 – Jorge Más Canosa, anti-Castro activist (b. 1939)
2000 – Rayner Unwin, British book publisher (b. 1925)
2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2001 – O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
2001 – Mary Whitehouse, British social activist (b. 1910)
2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
2004 – Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
2005 – Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
2006 – Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
2006 – Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
2006 – Anita O Day, American singer (b. 1919)
2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances
Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints – Pope Clement I
Bahá í Faith – Feast of Qawl (Speech) – First day of the 14th month of the Bahá í calendar
Alexander Nevsky s feast day in the Russian Orthodox Church
Georgia – St George s Day
Japan – Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
Slovenia – Rudolf Maister Day

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Events
498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 : The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as Blackbeard) is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Spur s Defeat.
1830 – Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie called for a rebellion against Great Britain in his essay To the People of Upper Canada, published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1858 – Denver, Colorado was founded.
1859 – Charles Darwin s book On the Origin of Species was first offered for sale, in London, England.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman s March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1922 – Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1928 – The premier performance of Ravel s Boléro takes place in Paris.
1935 – The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army was surrounded.
1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
1954 – The Humane Society of the United States was founded.
1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
1965 D.N. Aidit, head of the Communist Party of Indonesia is captured and killed by the Indonesian military in the aftermath of the G30S coup attempt.
1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1968 – The double album The Beatles, also known commonly as The White Album, is released. It is the ninth official album by The Beatles.
1972 – Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1998 – Albania constitution adopted by popular referendum.
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2008 – YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.

Births
1458 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1515 – Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1602 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1635 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 – Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
1780 – Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1787 – Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
1808 – Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1819 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
1868 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
1869 – André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1884 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1890 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
1893 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1901 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
1902 – Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Famed Austrian-American Cellist (d. 1942)
1904 – Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1913 – Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
1914 – Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
1917 – Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
1918 – Claiborne Pell, American politician
1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
1920 – Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1923 – Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
1925 – Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 – Arthur Jones (inventor), American inventor (d. 2007)
1928 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
1929 – Aleksandar Popovic, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor
1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1936 – Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Prime Minister of Bahrain
1938 – Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1939 – Tom West, American astrophysicist
1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
1940 – Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
1941 – Tom Conti, British actor
1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1942 – Guion Bluford, American astronaut
1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker
1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 – Tom Freston, American television executive
1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1947 – Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
1948 – Radomir Antic, Serbian football manager
1949 – Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
1949 – David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician
1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
1953 – Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
1958 – Horse McDonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1960 – Bruce Payne, English actor
1960 – Léos Carax, French film director
1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1963 – Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
1963 – Tony Mowbray, English football player and manager
1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, producer and director
1964 – Robbie Slater, Australian former footballer
1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1965 – Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
1966 – Richard Stanley, South African film director
1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketeer
1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player
1972 – Russell Hoult, English football goalkeeper
1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer
1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 – Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 – Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
1980 – Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981 – Ben Adams, English singer
1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress
1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
1988 – Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian novelists

Deaths
950 – King Lothair II of Italy
1286 – Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 – Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English explorer
1617 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
1694 – John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
1718 – Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1774 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
1783 – John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 – John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1875 – Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1893 – James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1900 – Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
1916 – Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1917 – Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1941 – Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 – Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1944 – Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 – Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963 – C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 – J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1980 – Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1980 – Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1980 – Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
1986 – William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 – Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 – Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
1989 – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1992 – Sterling Holloway, American Character actor (b. 1905)
1993 – Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
1996 – María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)
1998 – Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2001 – Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and producer (b. 1918)
2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 – Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
2007 – Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances
R.C. Saints – Feast of Saint Cecilia
Lebanon – Independence Day (from France, 1943)
Astrology: usually the first day of sun sign Sagittarius or the last day of Scorpio.

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Events
164 BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1272 – Following Henry III of England s death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
1791 – Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1894 – Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1905 – Albert Einstein s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1916 – World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
1920 – Bloody Sunday during the Anglo-Irish War.
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the Piltdown Man skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1962 – The Chinese People s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world s longest suspension bridge).
1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church s ecumenical council closes.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.
1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
1974 – The Birmingham Pub Bombings perpetrated by the IRA kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem God Save the Queen and the poem God Defend New Zealand, written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally s Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1988 – Canadian federal election, 1988 – Canadians re-elect the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney after an election campaign fought mainly over the issue of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
1990 – The Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocuses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues.
1995 – The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2004 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election s integrity.
2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq s external debt.
2006 – Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.

Births
1495 – John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
1567 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
1692 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)
1694 – Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1729 – Josiah Bartlett, Second Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)
1761 – Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
1768 – Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834)
1787 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)
1811 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese military leader (d. 1872)
1835 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
1840 – Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (d. 1901)
1852 – Francisco Tárrega, father of modern classical guitar (d. 1909)
1854 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
1860 – Tom Horn, American gunman (d. 1903)
1870 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (d. 1946)
1870 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)
1878 – Gustav Radbruch, German law professor (d. 1949)
1886 – Harold Nicolson, British diplomat (d. 1968)
1897 – Mollie Steimer anarchist agitator (d. 1980)
1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
1899 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)
1902 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American musician (d. 1969)
1908 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (d. 1994)
1912 – Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1983)
1913 – Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
1916 – Sid Luckman, American football player (d. 1998)
1919 – Steve Brodie, American actor (d. 1992)
1920 – Ralph Meeker, American actor (d. 1988)
1920 – Stan Musial, American baseball player
1921 – Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)
1922 – Maria Casares, Spanish-born actress (d. 1996)
1922 – Abe Lemons, American basketball coach (d. 2002)
1924 – Christopher Tolkien, British author
1927 – Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
1929 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator
1929 – Marilyn French, American feminist writer
1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)
1931 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
1933 – Joseph Campanella, American actor
1935 – Fairuz, Lebanese singer
1936 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (d. 1991)
1937 – Marlo Thomas, American actress
1939 – Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987)
1940 – Dr. John, American musician
1940 – Richard Marcinko, American author
1941 – Idil Biret, Turkish pianist
1941 – Juliet Mills, British actress
1942 – Afa Anoa i, Samoan/American wrestler
1942 – Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician
1943 – Phil Bredesen, American politician
1943 – Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy
1943 – Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer
1943 – Jacques Laffite, French former racing driver
1944 – Richard Durbin, American politician
1944 – Earl Monroe, American basketball player
1944 – Harold Ramis, American actor/director
1945 – Goldie Hawn, American actress
1946 – Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
1948 – George Zimmer, American entrepreneur
1948 – Alphonse Mouzon, American jazzist
1950 – Stephen Geyer, American film & television songwriter
1950 – Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
1952 – Lorna Luft, American actress and singer, daughter of Judy Garland
1954 – Thomas Rothman, American film executive
1955 – Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player
1960 – Brian McNamara, American actor
1960 – Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1962 – Steven Curtis Chapman, American musician
1962 – Sabine Busch, German athlete
1963 – Nicollette Sheridan, British actress
1964 – Olden Polynice, Haitian basketball player
1964 – Liza Tarbuck, British entertainer
1964 – Shane Douglas, American wrestler
1965 – Björk, Icelandic musician
1965 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (d. 1993)
1965 – Alexander Siddig, British actor
1966 – Troy Aikman, American football player
1967 – Tripp Cromer, American baseball player
1967 – Toshihiko Koga, Japanese Judoka
1968 – Alex James, English bassist (Blur)
1968 – Christopher Noxon, American journalist
1969 – Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player
1970 – Justin Langer, Australian cricketer
1971 – Michael Strahan, American football player
1972 – Rain Phoenix, American singer/actress
1972 – David Tua, Samoan boxer
1973 – Brook Kerr, American actress
1973 – Inés Sastre, Spanish model and actress
1975 – Cherie Johnson, American actress
1975 – Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
1976 – Michael Wilson, Australian rules footballer
1976 – Dasha, Czech adult actress
1976 – Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer
1976 – Daniel Whiston, British ice skater
1977 – Bruno Berner, Swiss footballer
1977 – Myles Heskett, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1977 – Jonas Jennings, American football player
1977 – Tobias Sammet, German singer (Edguy)
1977 – Yolande James, Quebec politician
1978 – Daniel Bradshaw, Australian rules footballer
1978 – Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress
1978 – Sara Tanaka, American actress
1979 – Stromile Swift, American basketball player
1979 – Alex Tanguay, Canadian hockey player
1979 – Kim Dong Wan, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 – Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
1980 – Hank Blalock, American baseball player
1980 – Alec Brownstein, American author, director
1980 – Leonardo González, Costa Rican footballer
1980 – Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress
1981 – Wesley Britt, American football player
1981 – Piet Rinke, Zimbabwean cricketer
1981 – Jonny Magallón, Mexican footballer
1982 – Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer
1982 – Ryan Starr, American singer
1983 – Jamie Langley, English rugby player
1984 – Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer
1984 – Jena Malone, American actress
1985 – Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
1986 – Ben Bishop, American ice hockey goalie, tallest goalie in NHL
1987 – Brian Douwes, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist

Deaths
496 – Pope Gelasius I
1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1555 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
1566 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
1579 – Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1652 – Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
1695 – Henry Purcell, English composer
1730 – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
1775 – John Hill, British writer
1811 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
1844 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1881 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
1899 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
1916 – Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (b. 1830)
1922 – Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
1924 – Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1941 – Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
1942 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
1945 – Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)
1945 – Al Bummy Davis, American Boxer (b. 1920)
1953 – Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1958 – Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1959 – Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
1963 – Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz), American prisoner (b. 1890)
1967 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1969 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
1970 – Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1970 – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1973 – Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1974 – John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)
1974 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
1980 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
1981 – Harry Von Zell, American announcer (b. 1906)
1982 – John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1986 – Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
1986 – Jerry Colonna, American comic (b. 1904)
1986 – Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1988 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1990 – Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
1991 – Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (b. 1907)
1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
1995 – Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin, Bad Company) (b. 1935)
1995 – Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1926)
1999 – Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
2001 – Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
2002 – Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
2005 – Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
2005 – Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
2006 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
2006 – Kathryn Johnston, US victim of police shooting (b. 1914)
2006 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
2007 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 – Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2007 – Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances
World Hello Day
World Television Day
Bangladesh – Armed Forces Day
R.C. Saints – Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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