Today is Sunday, November 8, 2009.

Born on This Day

1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
1900 Margaret Mitchell
1922 Christiaan Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant.
1927 Patti Page
1931 Morley Safer
1933 Esther Rolle
1949 Bonnie Raitt
1951 Mary Hart
1957 Porl Thompson, The Cure

Events

Punster's Day
1793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
1889 Montana admitted as 41st state
1895 Wilhelm R”ntgen discovers x-rays
1923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" fails, in jail he writes "Mein Kampf"
1939 Life with Father, opens on Broadway, closes in 1947, a record.
1984 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched

That's all for today.