Events:
- 380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
- 1429 – Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
- 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, UnionUlysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
- 1906 – The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting is broadcast live on television.
- 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.
- 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
- 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensisLucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (d. 1677)
- 1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1750)
- 1729 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800)
- 1784 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
- 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)
- 1884 – Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
- 1888 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
- 1897 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
- 1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1921 – John Lindsay, American politician (d. 2000)
- 1925 – William F. Buckley Jr., American writer (d. 2008)
- 1940 – Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.
- 1941 – Pete Best, British musician
- 1944 – Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
- 1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
- 1948 – Spider Robinson, science fiction author
- 1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie)
- 1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress
- 1964 – Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack)
- 1968 – Todd Beamer, American, acclaimed hero of United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
- 1974 – Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor
- 1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
- 1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
- 654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
- 1572 – John Knox, Scottish reformer (b. 1510)
- 1781 – James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734)
- 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- 1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
- 1987 – Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
- 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946)
- 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950)
- 2005 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
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 Chrysogonus, Saint Colman of Cloyne – Cobh, Ireland, Flavian of Ricina
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.
Hope your hubby has a very happy birthday :)
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