Every Year

• UNITY DAY (GERMANY)

1220s

• DIED 1226: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

1790s

• BORN 1790: JOHN ROSS (CHEROKEE NATION CHIEF)

1860s

• 1863: PRESIDENT LINCOLN DECLARED THE LAST THURSDAY IN NOVEMBER AS THANKSGIVING DAY
• 1868: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT’S LITTLE WOMEN FIRST PUBLISHED

1890s

• BORN 1898: LEO MCCAREY (PRODUCER)
• BORN 1899: GERTRUDE BERG (ACTRESS)

1900s

• BORN 1900: THOMAS WOLFE (AUTHOR)

1910s

• 1914: FIRST CANADIAN TROOPS LEFT FOR BRITAIN TO FIGHT IN WORLD WAR I
• BORN 1916: JAMES HERRIOT (AUTHOR)

1920s

• BORN 1924: HARVEY KURTZMAN (FOUNDING EDITOR OF MAD MAGAZINE)
• BORN 1925: GORE VIDAL (AUTHOR)

1930s

• BORN 1938: EDDIE COCHRAN (SINGER)

1940s

• BORN 1941: CHUBBY CHECKER (SINGER)

1950s

• BORN 1951: DAVE WINFIELD (BASEBALL PLAYER)
• BORN 1954: AL SHARPTON (MINISTER & POLITICIAN)

1960s

• 1960: THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW MADE ITS TELEVISION DEBUT
• 1961: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW DEBUTED ON TELEVISION
• DIED 1967: WOODY GUTHRIE (SINGER)
• BORN 1969: GWEN STEFANI (SINGER)

1970s

• BORN 1976: SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT (ACTOR)

1980s

• BORN 1984: ASHLEE SIMPSON (SINGER)
• BORN 1987: KACI (SINGER)

1990s

• 1990: AT MIDNIGHT, EAST AND WEST GERMANY WERE REUNITED AS ONE NATION, THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
• DIED 1998: RODDY MCDOWALL (ACTOR)

2000s

• DIED 2003: WILLIAM STEIG (ILLUSTRATOR FOR THE NEW YORKER, KNOWN AS THE “KING OF CARTOONS” FOR HIS AWARD-WINNING, BEST-SELLING CHILDREN’S BOOKS INCLUDING SHREK)
• DIED 2004: JANET LEIGH (ACTRESS)
• BORN 2004: NOAH SCHNAPP (ACTOR)

2010s

• 2010: THE COMIC STRIP CATHY CAME TO AN END AFTER 34 YEARS
• 2019: RARE YELLOW MALE NORTHERN CARDINAL SPOTTED IN PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA.

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