Samuel Langhorne Clemens (
November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Clemens, later known as Mark Twain, was an American writer,
humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was born
in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835.

Clemens was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United
States has produced," and William Faulkner called him
"the father of American literature."

On November 30, 1876, Yale defeated Princeton, 2-0, in Hoboken,
New Jersey in the first collegiate football game played on the Thanksgiving holiday. Nearly 1,000 fans attended the game,
played in cold, rainy weather. "The friends of both colleges
mustered in good force," the New York Times reports. "Several
carriages containing ladies were on the ground, and a goodly
number of Alumni were there to cheer the contestants."

The football was oval and made of leather, the Times noted,
"similar to those used in Rugby Union rules." The game
resembled rugby more than a present-day game of football. 

On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
a special commission to investigate the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred a week earlier,
on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

Johnson issued an Executive Order appointing the President’s
Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy which
became referred to as the Warren Commission, after its leader,
Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Gerald Ford (left) looks on as Chief Justice Earl Warren
presents the Commission’s report to President Lyndon
Johnson.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Ferdinand Magellan  (February 4, 1480 – April 27, 1521)

After sailing through the dangerous straits below South America
that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan entered the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first
European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic.