Born in 1943 – Terrence Malick, American director, producer, and screenwriter.

Above: Richard Gere, Linda Manz, and Brooke Adams in Malick’s 1978 film, Days of Heaven.

Born in 1918 – Madeleine L’Engle, American author and poet.

“Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”

Born in 1894 – Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator.

Born in 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator.

Above: The Laundress (1889)

Born in 1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator.

Above: Text and Illustration from Simont’s book, The Stray Dog (2001).

Born in 1969 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player.

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Above: "The Harvest of Death": Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan.

Born in 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright.

“Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.”

“Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.”

Born in 1897 – Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist. Co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.

Who said,

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

and

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”

In 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.