ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 326th day of 2025 and the 62nd day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1497, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounded Africa's Cape of Good Hope.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as his successor.

In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned.

In 2005, Angela Merkel took office as the first female chancellor of Germany.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: George Eliot (1819-1880), author; Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), French president and general; Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981), composer; Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), composer; Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004), actor/comedian; Robert Vaughn (1932-2016), actor; Billie Jean King (1943- ), tennis player; Steven Van Zandt (1950- ), actor/musician; Jamie Lee Curtis (1958- ), actress; Mads Mikkelsen (1965- ), actor; Boris Becker (1967- ), tennis player; Mark Ruffalo (1967- ), actor; Scarlett Johansson (1984- ), actress; Alden Ehrenreich (1989- ), actor.

TODAY'S FACT: "Toy Story," the first full-length film to be entirely computer-generated, was released on this day in 1995. The film earned $29.1 million in its opening weekend.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1986, Mike Tyson knocked out Trevor Berbick, becoming, at 20 years and four months and 22 days old, the youngest-ever heavyweight boxing champion.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are." -- George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

TODAY'S NUMBER: 12 -- Grand Slam women's singles titles won by Billie Jean King.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 19) and first quarter moon (Nov. 27).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 325th day of 2025 and the 61st day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1789, North Carolina was admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

In 1877, Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph.

In 1922, Rebecca Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first female U.S. senator.

In 1995, leaders representing warring factions in the former Yugoslavia initialed a peace agreement in Dayton, Ohio.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Voltaire (1694-1778), philosopher; Stan Musial (1920-2013), baseball player; Earl Monroe (1944- ), basketball player; Harold Ramis (1944-2014), actor/director; Goldie Hawn (1945- ), actress; Tina Brown (1953- ), author/editor; Rickson Gracie (1959- ), martial artist; Bjork (1965- ), singer/actress; Troy Aikman (1966- ), football player/sportscaster; Ken Griffey Jr. (1969- ), baseball player; Michael Strahan (1971- ), football player/TV personality; Carly Rae Jepsen (1985- ), singer-songwriter.

TODAY'S FACT: In 1783, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis Francois Laurent d'Arlandes made the first untethered manned hot air balloon flight in Paris.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1942, the National Hockey League discontinued overtime in regular-season games because of wartime restrictions on train schedules. It was restored in 1983.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all." -- Voltaire

TODAY'S NUMBER: 24 -- All-Star team selections for baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial. Musial and Willie Mays are tied for second behind Hank Aaron (25) for the all-time All-Star team selections record.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 19) and first quarter moon (Nov. 27).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 324th day of 2025 and the 60th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

In 1945, the Nuremberg Trials against World War II Nazi war criminals began.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy lifted the blockade against Cuba in response to the Soviet Union's announcement that it was removing its missiles from the Caribbean nation.

In 1969, a group of Native American activists took control of Alcatraz Island in an unarmed occupation that would last until June 1971.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), astronomer; Alistair Cooke (1908-2004), TV host; Robert Byrd (1917-2010), senator; Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), writer; Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), senator; Estelle Parsons (1927- ), actress; Richard Dawson (1932-2012), actor/TV host; Don DeLillo (1936- ), author; Joe Biden (1942- ), 46th U.S. president; Bo Derek (1956- ), actress; Ming-Na Wen (1963- ), actress; Joel McHale (1971- ), actor/comedian; Future (1983- ), rapper.

TODAY'S FACT: Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, with more than 50 years of service from 1959 to 2010.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1997, A.C. Green played in his 907th consecutive NBA game, a record that he would extend to 1,192 games.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense -- there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers." -- Nadine Gordimer, "The Conservationist"

TODAY'S NUMBER: 24 -- defendants at the start of the Nuremberg Trials.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 19) and first quarter moon (Nov. 27).