Charles Henry Dow(founder of Dow Jones & Company)β
John Philip Sousa(composer)β
James Naismith(invented game of basketball)β
Henry Knox Sherrill(clergyman)β
Charles W. Yost(diplomat)β
Sally Field(actress)β
Glenn Frey(musician)β
Maria Shriver(newscaster)β
Ethan Hawke(actor)β
Rebecca Romijn(actress)β
Emma Stone(actress)β
Died
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky(composer)β
James Peter Robertson(posthumous Victoria Cross recipient)β
Clarence "Ace" Parker(professional football player)β
Events
First recorded sightings of supernova in Cassiopeiaβ
Abraham Lincoln was elected presidentβ
Canada’s second national Thanksgiving Day after confederationβ
Electric shaver patent awarded to Col. Jacob Schickβ
Talking headlight installed on locomotive, Schenectady, New Yorkβ
Meet the Press made its television debutβ
President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelectionβ
President Ronald Reagan won reelection in an electoral landslideβ
National Public Radio announced the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of about $200 million. The nonprofit organization called the donation the largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution.β
Weather
Early season snow in Missouri, St. Louis receives 13.3 inchesβ
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received eight inches of snowβ
87 degrees F, Charleston, South Carolinaβ
A tornado tore across western Kentucky and Indiana, killing at least 22 peopleβ