ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 313th day of 2024 and the 48th day of autumn.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1889, Montana was admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States, defeating Richard Nixon.

In 2002, the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to give Iraq a "final opportunity" to disarm.

In 2004, U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a successful siege of the city of Fallujah, an insurgent stronghold.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer/mathematician; Bram Stoker (1847-1912), author; Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), author; Esther Rolle (1920-1998), actress; Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001), surgeon; Patti Page (1927-2013), singer/actress; Bonnie Raitt (1949- ), musician; Alfre Woodard (1952- ), actress; Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- ), author; Gordon Ramsay (1966- ), chef/TV personality; Parker Posey (1968- ), actress; Tech N9ne (1971- ), rapper; David Muir (1973- ), TV journalist; Giancarlo Stanton (1989- ), baseball player; SZA (1989- ), singer-songwriter.

TODAY'S FACT: The synthetic element roentgenium (atomic number 111) was named after physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, who discovered X-rays on this day in 1895.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1966, Frank Robinson of the American League's Baltimore Orioles became the first person to win MVP honors from both current baseball leagues. He had been named MVP in the National League in 1961 with the Cincinnati Reds.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be." -- Bram Stoker, "Dracula"

TODAY'S NUMBERS: 43 -- age of John F. Kennedy when he won the 1960 presidential election, making him the youngest elected president in U.S. history.

TODAY'S MOON: First quarter moon (Nov. 8).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 312th day of 2024 and the 47th day of autumn.

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

In 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a record fourth term as U.S. president.

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), philosopher/author; Billy Graham (1918-2018), evangelist; Joan Sutherland (1926-2010), opera singer; Johnny Rivers (1942- ), singer-songwriter; Joni Mitchell (1943- ), singer-songwriter; David Petraeus (1952- ), former CIA director; Keith Lockhart (1959- ), conductor; Hasim Rahman (1972- ), boxer; Yunjin Kim (1973- ), actress; Adam Devine (1983- ), actor/comedian; Lorde (1996- ), singer-songwriter.

TODAY'S FACT: In 1994, WXYC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, became the first radio station to offer a 24-hour simulcast on the internet.

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

TODAY'S QUOTE: " In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time." -- Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"

TODAY'S NUMBER: 626 million -- worldwide monthly active users of the streaming radio service Spotify.

TODAY'S MOON: Between new moon (Nov. 1) and first quarter moon (Nov. 8).

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC

Today is the 311th day of 2024 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.

In 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced a deal that would move the nearly 50-year-old NFL franchise to Baltimore.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Charles Dow (1851-1902), economist/journalist; John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), composer; James Naismith (1861-1939), inventor of basketball; Zig Ziglar (1926-2012), author; Mike Nichols (1931-2014), filmmaker; Sally Field (1946- ), actress; Glenn Frey (1948-2016), singer-songwriter; Ethan Hawke (1970- ), actor; Rebecca Romijn (1972- ), model/actress; Pat Tillman (1976-2004), football player; Emma Stone (1988- ), actress; Bowen Yang (1990- ), actor/comedian.

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 SPORTS: In 1869, Rutgers University (then known as Rutgers College) defeated Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) by the score of 6-4 in the first modern intercollegiate football game.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special." -- Ethan Hawke

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: Between new moon (Nov. 1) and first quarter moon (Nov. 8).