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Subject: Today In History for Tuesday, Nov. 30 -- In 1962, U Thant of Burma 

Today In History for Tuesday, Nov. 30

 By The Associated Press 

 Today is Tuesday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 1999. There are 31 days
left in the year.

 Today's Highlight in History:

 On Nov. 30, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary
peace articles in Paris, ending the
 Revolutionary War.

 On this date:

 In 1804, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial, accused of
political bias. He was acquitted by the
 Senate.

 In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain,
was born in Florida, Mo.

 In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim
Palace.

 In 1900, Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris.

 In 1936, London's famed Crystal Palace, built for the International
Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in a fire.

 In 1939, the Russo-Finnish War began as Soviet troops invaded Finland.

 In 1949, Chinese Communists captured Chungking.

 In 1962, U Thant of Burma was elected Secretary-General of the United
Nations, succeeding the late Dag
 Hammarskjold.

 In 1966, the former British colony of Barbados became independent.

 In 1993, President Clinton signed into law the Brady gun control bill.

 Ten years ago: President Bush left Washington for his first summit with
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
 that took place aboard ships off the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Alfred Herrhausen, chairman of West
 Germany's largest bank, was killed in a bombing claimed by the Red Army
Faction.

 Five years ago: Two passengers died and nearly 1,000 others and crew
members fled the cruise ship ``Achille
 Lauro'' after it caught fire off the coast of Somalia; the ship sank
two days later. The Achille Lauro had gained
 notoriety in 1985 when it was hijacked by Palestinian extremists.

 One year ago: Quebec's separatist premier, Lucien Bouchard, was
returned to power, but with only 43 percent
 of the vote, setting back the Parti Quebecois' goal of seeking
independence from Canada. Deutsche Bank AG
 announced it was acquiring Bankers Trust Corp. for more than $10
billion.

 Today's Birthdays: Movie director Gordon Parks is 87. Actor Efrem
Zimbalist Jr. is 81. Actress Virginia Mayo is
 79. Former Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., is 75. Actor Richard Crenna
is 72. Actor Robert Guillaume is 72. TV
 personality and producer Dick Clark is 70. Radio talk show host G.
Gordon Liddy is 69. Country singer Teddy
 Wilburn is 68. Country singer-recording executive Jimmy Bowen is 62.
Singer Luther Ingram is 55. Singer Rob
 Grill (The Grassroots) is 55. Playwright David Mamet is 52. Actress
Margaret Whitton is 49. Actor Mandy
 Patinkin is 47. Musician Shuggie Otis is 46. Singer June Pointer is 45.
Country singer Jeannie Kendall is 45.
 Singer Billy Idol is 44. Rock musician John Ashton (The Psychedelic
Furs) is 42. Football and baseball player Bo
 Jackson is 37. Rapper Jalil (Whodini) is 36. Actor-director Ben Stiller
is 34. Country singer Mindy McCready is
 24.

 Thought for Today: ```Classic': a book which people praise and don't
read.'' - Mark Twain (1835-1910).