Today is the 312th day of 2012 and the 47th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1805, William Clark wrote his famous journal entry, "Ocian in view! O! the joy," believing the Lewis and Clark expedition had reached the Pacific Ocean. The explorers were actually still 20 miles from sea.

In 1917, the Russian Bolshevik Revolution occurred as Vladimir Lenin's forces overthrew Alexander Kerensky's provisional government.

In 1994, WXYC in Chapel Hill, N.C., became the first radio station to offer a 24-hour simulcast on the Internet.

In 2000, the outcome of the U.S. presidential election was unknown at the end of Election Day, as Al Gore and George W. Bush awaited results in New Mexico, Oregon and Florida.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Marie Curie (1867-1934), physicist/chemist; Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian revolutionary; Albert Camus (1913-1960), writer; Billy Graham (1918- ), evangelist; Dame Joan Sutherland (1926-2010), opera singer; Joni Mitchell (1943- ), singer/songwriter; David Petraeus (1952- ), CIA director; Keith Lockhart (1959- ), conductor; Yunjin Kim (1973- ), actress.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1991, basketball legend Magic Johnson announced he had contracted HIV and would retire from the NBA.

TODAY'S FACT: Jeannette Rankin is the only woman ever elected to Congress from the state of Montana. On this day in 1916, she was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican and served until 1919. She was elected to Congress again in 1940.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes." -- Leon Trotsky

TODAY'S NUMBER: 150 million -- registered users of the Pandora Internet radio service as of April 2012.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter (Nov. 6) and new moon (Nov. 13).

Today is the 311th day of 2012 and the 46th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates to win the presidency.

In 1861, voters in the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis president.

In 1947, "Meet the Press" made its television debut.

In 1975, punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols played their first concert.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Charles Dow (1851-1902), economist/journalist; John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), composer; James Naismith (1861-1939), inventor of basketball; Mike Nichols (1931- ), film director; Sally Field (1946- ), actress; Ethan Hawke (1970- ), actor; Rebecca Romijn (1972- ), model/actress; Zoe McLellan (1974- ), actress; Emma Stone (1988- ), actress.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1869, the first modern intercollegiate football game was played between Rutgers and Princeton universities in New Brunswick, N.J.

TODAY'S FACT: "Meet the Press," which is the longest-running television series in history and is still on the air, began in 1945 as a radio show called "American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press."

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed." -- Abraham Lincoln

TODAY'S NUMBER: 6 -- years in the term for which Jefferson Davis was elected to serve as president. The Civil War ended before his term expired.

TODAY'S MOON: Last quarter moon (Nov. 6).

Today is the 310th day of 2012 and the 45th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by voting, leading to a $100 fine.

In 1895, George B. Selden patented the first automobile.

In 1940, incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated challenger Wendell Willkie to win an unprecedented third presidential term.

In 2007, Chang'e-1, China's first unmanned lunar spacecraft, entered orbit around the moon.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), journalist; Roy Rogers (1911-1998), actor/singer; Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), actress; Art Garfunkel (1941- ), singer; Sam Shepard (1943- ), playwright/actor; Bill Walton (1952- ), basketball player/commentator; Tilda Swinton (1960- ), actress; Johnny Damon (1973- ), baseball player; Ryan Adams (1974- ), musician; Kevin Jonas (1987), musician.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1994, 45-year-old George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer to claim the heavyweight boxing title.

TODAY'S FACT: Saudi Arabia announced in 2011 that women would have the right to vote beginning in 2015.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism (was) something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker." -- Sam Shepard

TODAY'S NUMBER: 4 -- countries that still deny women the right to vote in national elections.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (Oct. 29) and last quarter (Nov. 6).