TODAY in NOVEMBER
*mmddyyyy Birthdays *-------- ------------------------------------------------------------ B11021734 Daniel Boone B11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849) B11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923) B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer. B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same. B11041879 Will Rogers B11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is" B11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy). B11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger B11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography. B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co. B11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king B11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball. B11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium. B11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit. B11091934 Carl Sagan B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success