ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 319th day of 2017 and the 55th day of autumn.

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

In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial during a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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.

In 2006, the international 24-hour news channel Al Jazeera English launched worldwide.

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; Jonny Lee Miller (1972- ), actor; Chad Kroeger (1974- ), singer-songwriter; Shailene Woodley (1991- ), actress; Karl-Anthony Towns (1995- ), basketball player.

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 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 QUOTE: "What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it." -- Marianne Moore

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

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (Nov. 10) and new moon (Nov. 18).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 318th day of 2017 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 1995, the U.S. federal government temporarily closed national parks and museums as a result of a budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

In 2008, the first G-20 economic summit began in Washington, D.C.

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; P.J. O'Rourke (1947- ), journalist/author; Prince Charles (1948- ), Prince of Wales; Condoleezza Rice (1954- ), former secretary of state; Yanni (1954- ), musician; Patrick Warburton (1964- ), actor; Curt Schilling (1966- ), baseball player; Josh Duhamel (1972- ), actor; Betsy Brandt (1973- ), actress.

TODAY'S FACT: In 1910, the first airplane takeoff from the deck of a ship occurred near Hampton Roads, Virginia.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1970, a plane carrying 37 Marshall University football players, as well as the team's coach, doctors, athletic director and 25 team boosters, crashed outside an airport near Huntington, West Virginia, killing all on board.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse." -- P.J. O'Rourke, "The Bachelor Home Companion"

TODAY'S NUMBER: $87.3 million -- highest amount paid for an original Claude Monet painting. "Le Bassin aux Nympheas" was sold at a Christie's auction in London on June 24, 2008.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (Nov. 10) and new moon (Nov. 18).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 317th day of 2017 and the 53rd day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1887, "Bloody Sunday" took place in London, as violent clashes broke out between mostly Irish demonstrators and British police.

In 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation in Alabama was illegal.

In 1970, the Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh killed an estimated 500,000 people.

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

In 2015, a series of coordinated terror attacks in Paris killed 130 people and injured 368 others.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), writer; Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), U.S. Supreme Court justice; Buck O'Neil (1911-2006), baseball player; Jack Elam (1920-2003), actor; Garry Marshall (1934-2016), filmmaker; Joe Mantegna (1947- ), actor; Whoopi Goldberg (1955- ), actress/talk show host; Jimmy Kimmel (1967- ), comedian/TV host; Steve Zahn (1967- ), actor; Gerard Butler (1969- ), actor.

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

TODAY'S QUOTE: "In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy." -- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Old Mortality"

TODAY'S NUMBER: 8,310 -- Broadway performances of Disney's "The Lion King" since its debut on this day in 1997, making the musical the third-longest-running show in Broadway history (as of Oct. 29, 2017).

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (Nov. 10) and new moon (Nov. 18).