Today is the 320th day of 2012 and the 55th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1920, the League of Nations held its first assembly in Geneva.

In 1969, Vietnam anti-war demonstrations reached a peak when an estimated quarter- to half-million protesters marched peacefully in Washington, D.C.

In 2002, Hu Jintao took over leadership of China's Communist Party, replacing Jiang Zemin.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer; Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), U.S. Supreme Court justice; Marianne Moore (1887-1972), poet; Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), artist; Ed Asner (1929- ), actor; Petula Clark (1932- ), singer; Sam Waterston (1940- ), actor; Daniel Barenboim (1942- ), pianist/conductor; Beverly D'Angelo (1951- ), actress.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2005, Major League Baseball team owners and the players' union agreed on a tougher testing policy for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

TODAY'S FACT: Georgia O'Keeffe was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor, by President Gerald Ford in 1977.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage." -- Georgia O'Keeffe

TODAY'S NUMBER: 22 -- average age of a U.S. infantryman serving in the Vietnam War.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 13) and first quarter (Nov. 20).

Today is the 319th day of 2012 and the 54th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1851, the first American edition of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" was published.

In 1889, New York World reporter Nellie Bly set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days, inspired by Jules Verne. It took her 72 days.

In 1910, the first airplane took flight from the deck of a ship near Hampton Roads, Va.

In 1995, a budget impasse in Congress led to a partial government shutdown.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Fulton (1765-1815), inventor; Claude Monet (1840-1926), painter; Aaron Copland (1900-1990), composer; Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), politician; Ed White (1930-1967), astronaut; Wendy Carlos (1939- ), composer; Prince Charles (1948- ), Prince of Wales; Condoleezza Rice (1954- ), former secretary of state; Yanni (1954- ), musician; Curt Schilling (1966- ), baseball player; Travis Barker (1975- ), musician.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1956, New York Yankee Mickey Mantle was named American League MVP, his first of three, after finishing the season with 52 home runs and 130 RBIs.

TODAY'S FACT: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is not the actual average price of its component stocks, but a weighted average that compensates for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life." -- Mickey Mantle

TODAY'S NUMBER: $45.9 million -- earnings of NBA star LeBron James in 2012. More than half of the total came from endorsements.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 13) and first quarter (Nov. 20).

Today is the 318th day of 2012 and the 53rd day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1942, the minimum draft age for U.S. armed service was lowered from 21 to 18.

In 1970, the Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh killed more than 300,000 people.

In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

In 1997, "The Lion King" opened on Broadway.

In 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order allowing military tribunals for suspected terrorists.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), writer; Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), U.S. Supreme Court justice; Leon Leonwood Bean (1872-1967), retailer; Jack Elam (1916-2003), actor; Joe Mantegna (1947- ), actor; Whoopi Goldberg (1955- ), actress/comedian; Jimmy Kimmel (1967- ), comedian/TV host.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1985, Lynette Woodard made her debut as the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters.

TODAY'S FACT: The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba was established in 1903, when a stipulation in the Cuban-American Treaty designated the Guantanamo Bay area to be perpetually leased to the United States.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you." -- Louis Brandeis

TODAY'S NUMBER: 6,205 -- performances of Disney's "The Lion King" on Broadway since its 1997 debut, making the musical the fifth-longest-running show in Broadway history (as of Oct. 21, 2012).

TODAY'S MOON: New moon (Nov. 13).