1835Writer and humorist Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer is born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri1999In Seattle, at least 40 thousand protestors, some of them crash with police, disrupt the opening of the World Trade Organization’s meeting. 1929TV personality and producer Dick Clark who hosted the American Bandstand for decades is born in Mount Vernon, New York.

And 1979“Hey! Teacher, Leave them kids alone.” British rock group Pink Floyd releases its best selling album, The Wall.

Today in History, November 30th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.