Calendar for November 30th, 2009

2001: Chanukah

2001: Advent Sunday

Born 1508: Andrea Palladio (architect)

Born 1667: Jonathan Swift (satirist)

Born 1835: Mark Twain (writer)

Born 1874: Lucy Maud Montgomery (author)

Born 1874: Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)

Born 1894: Donald Ogden Stewart (actor)

Died 1900: Oscar Wilde (writer)

Born 1904: Clyfford Still (artist)

Born 1920: Virginia Mayo (actress)

Born 1929: Dick Clark (entertainer)

1940: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz married

Born 1947: David Mamet (dramatist)

Born 1952: Mandy Patinkin (actor & singer)

Died 1952: Sister Kenny (nurse who developed a method for treating victims of the disease infantile paralysis)

1954: Meteorite hit Ann Hodges in her home in Sylacauga, Alabama

Born 1955: Billy Idol (singer)

Born 1962: Bo Jackson (football & baseball player)

Born 1978: Clay Aiken (singer)

1990: Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics scored his 20,000th career point

Born 1994: Dylan Cash (actor)

Died 1998: Johnny Roventini (radio and TV ad pitchman in the 1930s and 40s)

Died 2003: Gertrude Ederle (first woman to swim the English Channel)

Died 2004: Pierre Berton (author)

Died 2007: Evel Knievel (stunt motorcyclist)