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TODAY - Nov 29, 2025

Thought of the Day

Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute.

Today's Birthday

Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips Abolitionist, American(1811)

An American abolitionist and lawyer.

 
Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley Director, American(1895)

A Hollywood movie director and choreographer.

 
Clive Staples Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis Novelist, British(1898)

A British novelist and writer of science fiction, works on religious subjects, and popular children's books set in the land of Narina.

 
Jacques Rene Chirac
Jacques Rene Chirac Statesman, French(1932)

A French statesman and the President of France from 1995 to 2007.

 
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott Author, American(1932)

An American author; who is regarded as one of the famous writers of children's fiction.

This day in History

1890

The first Army-Navy football game is played between the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.

1929

American explorer Richard Byrd passes over the South Pole, becoming the first man to fly over both poles.

1945

Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic.

1963

The Warren Commission headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Man who made the difference

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Louisa May Alcott

An American author; who is regarded as one of the famous writers of children's fiction was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Philadelphia, United States. In 1854, Flower Fables Louisa's first book was published. The work is a collection of fairy tales. Later Alcott began writing for magazines the Gothic stories. These dramatic tales emphasized mystery, adventure, and horror. More than 150 short stories were written by her in all. She worked as an editor for a children's magazine named Merry's Museum in 1867. Little Women, is her best-known book written for children was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. After the great success of Little Women, Alcott produced sequels to the book: Little Men (1871), in which Jo and her husband pattern their academy after Bronson Alcott's Temple School; and Jo's Boys (1886), tracing the lives of Jo's nephews and nieces. Alcott's other popular books for children include An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870) and Under the Lilacs (1878). In Alcott's time, American social reformers such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought to achieve social and political equality for women, particularly through the right for women to vote. Alcott did not formally join the women's rights movement, but she endorsed its goals.

She died on March 6, 1888, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal