An exhibit of items recovered from the Titanic is scheduled to open in Norfolk, Virginia. On the horizon On Thursday, November 21, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is scheduled to begin a trip to China, Korea, Singapore and the Philippines, starting with his arrival in Beijing. 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 is to be held in Venice, Italy. On this day In 1759, in the battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years War, the British fleet commanded by Admiral Hawke destroyed the French invasion fleet under Admiral Conflans. In 1894, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, Russian composer and one of the 19th century's great pianists, died. In 1925, Robert Kennedy, the U.S. politician and younger brother of John F. Kennedy, was born. In 1925, Queen Alexandra, the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and widow of King Edward VII of Britain, died.