Also on This Day: November 16

Also on this day...
Feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln - Patron of Sick People, and Swans

National Button Day
Have a Party with Your Bear Day
World Philosophy Day
Great American Smokeout
International Tolerance Day - established by UNESCO to raise awareness of the dangers of intolerance

Francis Danby, Irish painter, was born in 1793, W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues," was born in 1873. George S. Kaufman was born in 1889, and Jean Fritz was born in 1915.