November 30......

November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 1016 - English King Edmund II died.

● 1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council closed, under Innocent III. It was this council that made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to the Eucharist (Lord's Supper).

● 1216 - Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special badge. Proving that very few of Hitler’s ideas were original.

● 1530 - German reformer Martin Luther remarked: 'Whenever I happen to be prevented by the press of duties from observing my hour of prayer, the entire day is bad for me.'

● 1554 - Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England, under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the process, "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.

● 1624 - Richard Cornish executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law. That sucked.

● 1700 - 8,000 Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeated an army of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva. King Charles XII died on this day.

● 1729 - Birth of Samuel Seabury, first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. (Following the American Revolution, Seabury helped formulate the constitution which made the American Protestant Episcopal Church independent and autonomous from the Church of England.)

● 1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

● 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. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.

● 1803 - In New Orleans, 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 Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase accused of political bias. He was later acquitted by the Senate.

● 1812 - Twice, General "Apocalypse" Smythe orders his troops to cross the Niagara River to invade Canada, and twice his courage fails and he called off the attack. As the soldiers clambered from their boats the second time, they turned their weapons upon their commander's tent; Smythe turned tail and fled to Virginia.

● 1835 - Birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American humorist, social critic, and opponent of U.S. militarism. Florida, Missouri. He wrote "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" under the name Mark Twain.

● 1838 - Three days after the French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico declared war on France.

● 1853 - Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.

● 1854 - Birth of "Fighting Mary" Eliza McDowell. A social worker, she helped organize the first women's local union of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1902. Comprised mostly of women workers, the Local grew to more than 1,000 members.

● 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 around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).

● 1865 - Birth of Soledad Gustavo (Teresa Mano), Villanova, Spain. Catalan anarchist free thinker, mother of Federica Montseny, an important figure in Spanish anarchism.

● 1868 - A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King's garden in Stockholm.

● 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

● 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, orator and author who served as prime minister during World War II, was born in Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire (the Duke of Marlborough's official seat).

● 1875 - A.J. Ehrichson patented the oat-crushing machine.

● 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

● 1894 - In Naperville, Illinois, seven groups of the Evangelical Association withdrew from the organization to form the United Evangelical Church. (In 1922 the two denominations reunited.)

● 1897 - Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.

● 1900 - Author Oscar Wilde died at age 46.

● 1900 - Death of Irish wit, playwright, gay pioneer Oscar Wilde 46, dies in Paris, France, in a hotel, remarking of his room's wallpaper - "One of us had to go." Condemned to two years hard labor in 1895 for his homosexuality. Wrote "De profundis" there, exalting revolutionary action and political agitation, a small book that was not published in its entirety until 44 years later.

● 1901 - Spain - Catalan federalist Pi i Margall dies. President of the first Republic in 1873, with the fall of King Amodoe of Savoy (hastened by Andalusian anarchist agitation of workers and peasants). Sought a federal republic separate from the church, and redistribution of land to the peasants. In Andalusia and in several cities in the Southeast, a libertarian federalism emerged, but the Monarchist reactionaries defeated all revolutionary aspirations.

● 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.

● 1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle.

● 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

● 1924 - Birth of Shirley Chisholm, first African American woman in Congress and U.S. presidential candidate.

● 1930 - Death of radical labor organizer Mary Harris, aka Mother Jones, Silver Spring Maryland. A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a militant leader of miners and other union workers, dies at the age of 100. She is buried in the Mount Olive, Illinois cemetery. Jones was an organizer or "walking delegate" for the United Mine Workers (UMW), traveling from town to town, living in the homes of miners who sometimes risked their jobs to shelter her. Stories of her bravado are legendary. When she and 3,000 women were released by a militia after being held all night in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, they marched straight to the hotel housing the soldiers & ate their breakfast. Into her nineties, Mother Jones still roamed through the hills of West Virginia, encouraging miners to organize. When a monument is dedicated to her in 1936, some 50,000 miners attended the ceremony.

● 1932 - Manitoba farmers destroy tax records to prevent forced land sales.

● 1936 - Birth of anti-war protester and Yippie Abbie Hoffman.

● 1936 - London's famed Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. The structure had been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.

● 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the Russo-Finnish War.

● 1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.

● 1942 - World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

● 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
● 1948 - Baseball's Negro National League disbands.

● 1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking.

● 1950 - U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb.

● 1950 - Indian Fellowship of Reconciliation founded.

● 1953 - Birth of Albert Michael Espy lives, Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1987, he is sworn in as the state's first African-American congressman since John Lynch more than 100 years before.

● 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, an 8.5 lb (3.4 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.

● 1954 - Winston Churchill turns 80; The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, celebrates his 80th birthday in a day of ceremonies and tributes to his remarkable career.

● 1956 - CBS replayed the program "Douglas Edward and the News" three hours after it was received on the West Coast. It was the world's first broadcast via videotape.

● 1960 - Final military draft in Britain.

● 1960 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.

● 1962 - U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.

● 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

● 1967 - Eugene McCarthy (Senator from Minnesota) announces presidential candidacy, running on anti-war platform.

● 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

● 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

● 1967 - Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announced their engagement.

● 1968 - Shops told to stop conning customers; British shopkeepers will face prosecution under a new trade law if they do not tell the truth about the goods they are selling from now on.

● 1969 - U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley charged with covering up the massacre of 567 civilians by his troops at Mylai, Vietnam in March 1968.

● 1971 - Tanker breaks in half off Japan, spilling 6,258,000 gallons of oil.

● 1971 - ABC-TV aired "Brian's Song." The movie was about Chicago Bears' Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gayle Sayers.

● 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.

● 1973 - Frozen mallards began falling on Stuttgart, Arkansas. Duck!

● 1979 - Pink Floyd release the album ''The Wall.''

● 1980 - Death of Dorothy Day, pacifist, anarchist, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City.

● 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).

● 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street. Animal activists bomb Downing Street; A letter bomb explodes inside the British Prime Minister's London residence injuring a member of staff.

● 1982 - The motion picture "Ghandi" had its world premiere in New Delhi.

● 1986 - "Time" magazine published an interview with U.S. President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a "national hero."

● 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.

● 1989 - Deutsche Bank chairman of the board Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.

● 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.

● 1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.

● 1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill. The bill required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.

● 1993 - Richard Allen Davis was arrested by authorities in California. Davis confessed to abducting and slaying 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.

● 1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.

● 1994 - Blazing liner abandoned off east Africa; Almost 1,000 people are forced to abandon the Achille Lauro in the Indian Ocean after it catches fire.

● 1995 - President Clinton kindles hope in Northern Ireland; Bill Clinton, the first serving US president to visit Northern Ireland, gets a rapturous welcome by both Catholics and Protestants.

● 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10.1 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.

● 1999 - T-bone steaks on sale by Christmas; The ban on beef on the bone is to be lifted next month, with T-bone steaks and ribs of beef back on sale for the first time in two years in Great Britain.

● 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the 135-nation WTO meeting by at least 40,000 anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

● 1999 - Despite police counterattacks, World Trade Organization meetings shut down by at least 50,000 peaceful protesters in the streets of Seattle, throwing the future of the WTO into disarray and galvanizing a new generation of global justice activists in North America and Europe. International media coverage ignores both the blockade and the police riot (and an enormous labor-sponsored rally and march), focusing instead on minor property damage committed by a few dozen black bloc members.

● 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

● 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.

● 2000 - David Spade was assaulted with a stun gun by his longtime personal assistant, David Warren Malloy. Malloy attacked Spade during a burglary of Spade's home in Beverly Hills.

● 2001 - For the first time in its history, McDonald's teamed up with a retail partner on its Happy Meal promotions. Toys R Us provided plush figures from its Animal Alley.

● 2001 - King County (Seattle) police arrest Gary Leon Ridgway as the suspected Green River killer, who murdered at least 49 women in the Pacific Northwest from 1982-84.

● 2001 - Robert Tools, the first person to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky., after living with the device for 151 days.

● 2001 - In Georgia, former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and two other men were arrested and charged with murder in the slaying of sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, who had defeated Dorsey in a bitter runoff election.

● 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.

● 2004 - In Stockholm, Sweden, the Carl Larsson painting "Boenskoerd" ("Bean Harvest") was sold at auction for $730,000. The work had been in a private collection for more than a century. The Larsson work "Vid Kattegatt" ("By Kattegatt") sold for $640,000 at the same auction.

● 2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.

● 2005 - Rt Rev John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.

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 admiral and naval leader (d. 1560)

● 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-born British religious 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 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, 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 gun and ammunition manufacturer; developed the Winchester rifle (d. 1880)

● 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)

● 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)

● 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, German author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)

● 1821 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)

● 1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)

● 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)

● 1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, Brazilian president (d. 1909)

● 1857 - Bobby Abel, English test 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 and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)

● 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-45, 1951-55) and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

● 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)

● 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)

● 1893 - I.J. Singer, Polish-born American author (d. 1944)

● 1894 - Donald Ogden Stewart, American playwright and actor (d. 1980)

● 1898 - Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)

● 1904 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)

● 1907 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author

● 1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)

● 1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer

● 1915 - Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d.1996)

● 1915 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

● 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor

● 1920 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)

● 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)

● 1924 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)

● 1926 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Robert Guillaume, American actor (''Benson'')

● 1929 - Dick Clark, American television host (''American Bandstand'')

● 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer

● 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate operative and felon Radio talk show host

● 1931 - Jack Ging, American actor

● 1931 - Bill Walsh, American football coach and Hall of Fame member

● 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)

● 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician

● 1937 - Jimmy Bowen, Country singer, recording executive

● 1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director (''Gladiator,'' ''Black Hawk Down'')

● 1937 - Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)

● 1937 - Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer

● 1943 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.

● 1944 - Rob Grill, Singer (The Grassroots)

● 1944 - Luther Ingram, R&B singer

● 1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)

● 1947 - David Mamet, American playwright

● 1950 - Margaret Whitton, Actress

● 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 - Shuggie Otis, Musician

● 1954 - Jeannie Kendall, Country singer (The Kendalls)

● 1954 - Lawrence H. Summers, Fromer treasury secretary, president of Harvard

● 1955 - Richard Burr, U.S. senator, R-N.C.

● 1955 - Billy Idol, British musician

● 1957 - John Ashton, Rock musician (The Psychedelic Furs)

● 1957 - Margaret Spellings, Secretary of education

● 1957 - Colin Mochrie, British-born Canadian comedian (''Who's Line Is It Anyway?'')

● 1957 - Andrew Calhoun, American musician

● 1958 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder

● 1958 - Stacey Q, American dance-pop singer

● 1959 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist

● 1960 - Gary Lineker, English international footballer

● 1960 - Rich Fields, TV personality

● 1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player

● 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, American writer

● 1963 - Jalil, Rapper (Whodini)

● 1964 - Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler

● 1965 - Ben Stiller, American director, actor and writer

● 1965 - Aldair, Brazilian international footballer

● 1966 - Ed Kemper, American actor

● 1966 - Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 Driver

● 1968 - Des'ree, British soul/pop singer

● 1968 - Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist

● 1969 - Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver

● 1969 - Mike Stone, Rock musician (Queensryche)

● 1970 - Sandra Oh, Actress (''Grey's Anatomy'')

● 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, Puerto Rican baseball player

● 1971 - Ray Durham, American baseball player

● 1972 - Abel Xavier, Portuguese international footballer

● 1973 - John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)

● 1973 - Jason Reso, Canadian professional wrestler

● 1975 - Mindy McCready, American musician

● 1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh international footballer

● 1976 - Josh Lewsey, England national and London Wasps Rugby union player

● 1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer (''American Idol'')

● 1978 - Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican Actor

● 1981 - Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player

● 1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress (''24'')

● 1984 - Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer

● 1984 - Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer

● 1985 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model (''8 Simple Rules'')

● 1987 - Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)

● 1990 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player

● 1991 - Carnell Breeding, of the boy band B5

● 1994 - Nyjah Huston, Skateboarder

DEATHS

● 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)

● 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)

● 1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)

● 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)

● 1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)

● 1989 - Paul Keegan, Irish footballer

● 1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)

● 1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)

● 1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)

● 1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)

● 1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)

● 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)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Andrew the apostle; Patron of Scotland
● St. Zosimus
● St. Trojan
● St. Tudwal
● St. Constantius
● St. Joseph Marchand
● St. Maura

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 17 (Civil Date: November 30)
● Nativity Fast.
● St. Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo Caesarea
● St. Nicon, abbot of Radonezh, disciple of St. Sergius.
● St. Lazarus the Iconographer of Constantinople.
● St. Longinus of Egypt.
● St. Gennadius of Vatopedi (Mt. Athos. .
● Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia.
● St. Maximus (Maximian), Patriarch of Constantinople
● St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours, and with him Sts. Patroclus of Bourges, Ursus and Leobatius, brother abbots, and Nicetius of Lyons (Gaul).

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Zachariah the Skete dweller and St. John, monk.
● St. Justin, monk.

● Scotland: St Andrew's day is the national day of Scotland.

● Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)

● Official End of the Hurricane Season

● Cities for Life Day; 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty

● Benin : National Day

● Iran : Qadir Khom Festival

● Philippines: Andres Bonifacio Day/Heroes' Day (1863)

● Yemen PDR : Independence Day (1967)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts : John F Kennedy Day (1963) ( Sunday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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