- Child Health Day
- Look At The Leaves Day
- National Family TV Show Day
- National Techies Day
- National Virus Appreciation Day
- National Carmel Custard Day
- World Smile Day
- World Habitat Day
- National Foundation Day-Korea
- Unity Day-Germany
- World Temperance Day
- On This Day
- 1789 --- President George Washington signed a proclamation declaring Thursday the 26th day of November as the first national Thanksgiving Day under the Constitution.
- 1863 --- Abraham Lincoln declared that Thanksgiving Day would be an annual event celebrated on the last Thursday in November.
- 1883 --- The ‘Orient Express’ made its first run from Paris to Constantinople.
- 1895 --- The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, is published in book form. The story of a young man's experience of battle was the first American novel to portray the Civil War from the ordinary soldier's point of view. The tale originally appeared as a serial published by a newspaper syndicate.
- 1899 --- The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman of St. Louis, MO. Remember his advertising slogan? “You can be sure if it’s Thurman!” This "pneumatic carpet renovator" was gasoline powered.
- 1901 --- The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA-Victor became the leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words “His Master’s Voice”, appeared on all RCA-Victor phonographs and record labels.
- 1922 --- Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold office of U.S. Senator
- 1932 --- With the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations, Britain terminates its mandate over the Arab nation, making Iraq independent after 17 years of British rule and centuries of Ottoman rule.
- 1941 --- The first aerosol can was patented.
- 1941 --- Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
- 1942 --- To deal with the financial pressures of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's issued an Executive Order establishing the Office of Economic Stabilization, authorizing control of wages, salaries, profits, rents, and prices of agricultural commodities.
- 1945 --- Elvis Presley appeared in a talent show at the age of 10. It was his first public appearance. He won 2nd place and $5.
- 1951 --- “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants are the champs of the National League!” Listeners were hearing the voice of New York Giants play-by-play legend Russ Hodges on the ninth-inning heroics of Bobby Thomson. Thomson’s dramatic home run (off Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca) gave the Giants the pennant as they beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4. The Giants weren’t even supposed to be in the pennant race--they were 13 1/2 games behind the legendary Dodgers by the middle of August, and everyone thought they were finished. But then they won 16 games in a row. By October, they’d won 37 of their last 44 games and had tied Brooklyn for the lead. It was time for a playoff, the first ever in the National League.
- 1954 --- One of the favorite TV shows of our time was first seen on this day. Father Knows Best beganits long run on CBS, then made the move to NBC in 1956.
- 1955 --- “Good Morning, Captain!” It was Bob Keeshan’s first day at work in what became a TV institution via CBS: Captain Kangaroo. The children’s television milestone featured Mr. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, Mr. Moose and other characters.
- 1955 --- "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC.
- 1960 --- "The Andy Griffith Show" premiered on CBS. Maybe you remember the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina with its sheriff, Andy Taylor, played gently and philosophically by Andy Griffith. Andy was a widower with a young son, Opie, played by the now, award-winning, movie director Ron Howard. Other members of the cast of The Andy Griffith Show went on to become celebrated show biz stars, too: Don Knotts who played Andy’s deputy, Barney Fife; and Jim Nabors, the lovable, extremely naive gas station attendant, Gomer Pyle, come to mind.
- 1961 --- The United Auto Workers (UAW) union goes on strike at Ford plants across the country to win higher wages and better benefits for its members. It was the first company-wide strike since Ford had agreed to a collective-bargaining deal in 1941.
- 1961 --- Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), Sally (Rose Marie) and Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) debuted in The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS-TV. Created by Carl Reiner, the show ran for five years (if you don’t include cable reruns).
- 1974 --- Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball.
- 1981 --- A hunger strike by Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison in Belfast in Northern Ireland is called off after seven months and 10 deaths. The first to die was Bobby Sands, the imprisoned Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader who initiated the protest on March 1, 1981--the fifth anniversary of the British policy of "criminalization" of Irish political prisoners. In the aftermath of the strike, the administration of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to give in to several of the protesters' demands, including the right to wear civilian clothing and the right to receive mail and visits. Prisoners were also allowed to move more freely and were no longer subject to harsh penalties for refusing prison work. Official recognition of their political status, however, was not granted.
- 1989 --- Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
- 1990 --- Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as "Unity Day." Since 1945, when Soviet forces occupied eastern Germany, and the United States and other Allied forces occupied the western half of the nation at the close of World War II, divided Germany had come to serve as one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War. Some of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War took place there.
- 1992 --- Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of the pope during her appearance on "Saturday Night Live."
- 1995 --- O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson's "dream team" of lawyers employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson's guilt had not been proved "beyond a reasonable doubt," thus surmounting what the prosecution called a "mountain of evidence" implicating him as the murderer.
- 2001 --- Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks at 171.
- 2002 --- Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period. Authorities began to search for the "Beltway Sniper."
- 2003 --- Ray Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
- 2011 --- In a decision that makes international headlines, an Italian appeals court overturns the murder conviction of Amanda Knox, an American exchange student who two years earlier was found guilty in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. At the time of her 2009 conviction, Knox, then 22 years old, received a 26-year prison sentence, while her ex-boyfriend, Italian college student Raffaelle Sollecito, who also was convicted in the slaying, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars. In March 2013, in a new twist in the case, Italy's highest court overturned the acquittals of Knox and Sollecito and ordered that they be retried. In January 2014, the two were re-convicted in Kercher's death. Knox, who remained in America during the trial, was sentenced to 28 1/2 years behind bars, while her former boyfriend received a 25-year prison sentence. Lawyers for the two vowed to appeal the convictions. If Knox's conviction is upheld, she's unlikely to return to Italy unless extradited.
- Birthdays
- Emily Post
- Gore Vidal
- Chubby Checker
- Lindsay Buckingham
- Dennis Eckersley
- Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Gwen Stefani
- Neve Campbell
- 276th Day of the Year /89 Remaining
- Winter Begins in 79 Days
- Sunrise:7:07
- Sunset:6:48
- 11 Hours 41 Minutes
- Moon Rise:3:42pm
- Moon Set:1:39am
- Moon Phase:72%
- Full Moon October 8 @ 3:50am
- Full Hunter’s Moon
- Full Blood Moon
- Full Sanguine Moon
This full Moon is often referred to as the Full Hunter’s Moon, Blood Moon, or Sanguine Moon. Many moons ago, Native Americans named this bright moon for obvious reasons. The leaves are falling from trees, the deer are fattened, and it’s time to begin storing up meat for the long winter ahead. Because the fields were traditionally reaped in late September or early October, hunters could easily see fox and other animals that come out to glean from the fallen grains. Probably because of the threat of winter looming close, the Hunter’s Moon is generally accorded with special honor, historically serving as an important feast day in both Western Europe and among many Native American tribes.
- Tides
- High Tide:7:46am/7:00pm
- Low Tide:12:42am/7:00pm