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Daily Calendar for Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Born

  • Andrea Palladio (architect) –
  • Jonathan Swift (satirist) –
  • Mark Twain (writer; pen name, Mark Twain; real name, Samuel Langhorne Clemens) –
  • Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister) –
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery (author) –
  • Donald Ogden Stewart (actor) –
  • Clyfford Still (artist) –
  • Virginia Mayo (actress) –
  • Dick Clark (entertainer) –
  • Woody Allen (actor & producer) –
  • David Mamet (dramatist) –
  • Mandy Patinkin (actor & singer) –
  • Billy Idol (singer) –
  • Bo Jackson (football & baseball player) –
  • Clay Aiken (singer) –
  • Elisha Cuthbert (actress) –
  • Kaley Cuoco (actress) –
  • Dylan Cash (actor) –

Died

  • Oscar Wilde (writer) –
  • Sister Kenny (nurse who developed a method for treating victims of the disease infantile paralysis) –
  • Johnny Roventini (radio and TV ad pitchman in the 1930s and 40s) –
  • Gertrude Ederle (first woman to swim the English Channel) –
  • Pierre Berton (author) –
  • Evel Knievel (stunt motorcyclist) –
  • Paul Walker (actor) –
  • Jim Nabors (actor and singer) –
  • George H.W. Bush (41st U.S. president) –
  • Christine McVie (musician ) –

Events

  • Anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth–
  • The Mason jar developed by John Mason was patented–
  • U.S. patent was issued to Johann Waehner of New York City for a necktie fastener–
  • Comedienne Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz married–
  • Meteorite hit Ann Hodges in her home in Sylacauga, Alabama–
  • Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics scored his 20,000th career point–
  • A pristine copy of Action Comics #1, famed for the first appearance of Superman, sold for $2,161,000. It was the first comic book to break the $2 million mark.–
  • Discovery of 215 fossilized pterosaur eggs in Gobi Desert, China, announced–

Weather

  • The Erie Canal closed due to severely cold weather–
  • A Midwest cold wave brought a temperature of 17 degrees below zero F to Minneapolis–
  • A tornado claimed 2 lives in Simsboro, Louisiana–

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