Birthdays: James Fennimore Cooper, William Howard Taft, Porfirio Diaz- Mexican President 1884-1911, Agatha Christie, Cannonball Adderly, Bruno Walter, Yuri Noorstein, Merlin Olsen, Oliver Stone, Jean Renoir (film director and son of painter August Renoir), Alexander Korda, Jesse Norman, Robert Benchley, Albert Whitlock, Ron Shelton, Fay Wray, Tommy Lee Jones is 77, Prince Harry is 39
1928- Walt Disney staged the first recording session for the music for Steamboat Willie. He was unhappy with the results, so he pawned his car to raise the cash to make a second recording session happen. Steamboat Willie premiered on Nov. 18th.
1930- The first Blondie comic strip.
1930- Hoagy Carmichael first recorded “Georgia on My Mind”.
1936- MGM producer Irving Thallberg, the "Boy Genius" of Hollywood, died of a pneumonia at age 37. He was the inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon".
1957-The TV series Bachelor Father starring John Forsythe premiered.
1960- The Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse cartoon show premiered.
1965- "Green Acres" TV show debuted. Arnold Ziffel the pig gains national prominence.
1971 –The environmental political movement Greenpeace founded in Vancouver by twelve members of the Don’t Make a Wave Committee.
1998- Rap star Coolio is busted in Lawndale Cal for driving on the wrong side of the road, using an expired license and having a 9mm pistol and bag of marijuana in his car.
2009- Waking Sleeping Beauty by Don Hahn premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
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