The Sugarloaf Craft Festival is scheduled to be held at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The New Star Rising Bluegrass Festival is scheduled to open in Live Oak, Florida. On the horizon On Friday, November 22, a verdict is expected in the trial of 23 members of the French Church of Scientology on manslaughter and fraud charges. On Sunday, November 24, the Mother Goose Parade is scheduled to take place in El Cajon, California, with organizers expecting a crowd of 250,000 nursery-rhyme lovers. On Monday, November 25, U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Thailand.
Topics are to include ecological measures to protect marine life, and other associated topics.
On Wednesday, November 27, the second ministerial conference on the management of fish stocks in the Mediterranean Sea is to be held in Venice, Italy. On Thursday, November 28, Greece's main GSEE labor confederation is scheduled to stage a one-day strike to protest economic austerity. On this day In 1694, the French philosopher Voltaire born in Paris as Francois-Marie Arouet. In 1695, English composer Henry Purcell died from tuberculosis. In 1787, ship owner Samuel Cunard was born in Nova Scotia.