Today is the 330th day of 2013. There are 35 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1789: A day of Thanksgiving is set aside by US President George Washington to observe the adoption of America’s Constitution.

OTHER EVENTS

1095: Pope Urban urges the faithful to wrest the Holy Land from the Muslims, heralding start of Crusades.

1648: Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia, which ended 30 Years War one month earlier.

1716: A lion is first exhibited in America.

1764: Jesuit order is suppressed in France.

1825: The first US college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, is formed at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

1857: First Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne.

1922: King Tutankhamen’s tomb is opened in Egypt.

1940: Half-million Jews of Warsaw, Poland, are ordered to live within a walled ghetto.

1942: The film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, has its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

1949: India adopts constitution as federal republic within British Commonwealth.

1965: France launches its first satellite, sending a 41-kilogramME (92-pound) capsule into orbit.

1987: Powerful typhoon whips across Philippines, killing 270 people and damaging or destroying 14,000 homes.

1991: UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced unprecedented exodus of 200,000 people.

1992: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II announces she would start paying taxes on her personal income and take her children off the national payroll.

1997: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invites foreign experts to live in his “presidential palaces” to prove that he has nothing to hide. The palaces remain closed to weapons inspectors.

1998: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that authorities at elementary and secondary schools have the right to search a student without first obtaining a search warrant.

2000: Florida certifies George W Bush as the winner of the state’s electoral votes for the US presidential election. US vice-president and Democratic rival Al Gore challenges the decision.

2002: Attorney Gloria Allred asks California authorities to investigate singer Michael Jackson because of news videotape of the star holding his baby son over a fourth-floor railing at a hotel in Germany.

2003: Elections held in Northern Ireland result in gains for hard-line parties on both sides of the long-time conflict between unionists, who want the territory to remain a British province, and nationalists, who seek unification with the Republic of Ireland.

2007: A British teacher is arrested in Sudan for allegedly insulting Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, is jailed for more than a week and eventually freed.

2008: Teams of heavily armed gunmen storm luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, leaving at least 172 people and wounding 239 others after a 60-hour rampage.

2009: Dubai is now so swamped in debt that it is asking for a six-month reprieve on paying its bills — causing a drop on world markets and raising questions about Dubai’s reputation as a magnet for international investment.

2012: The United States claims “enormous” strides in reducing greenhouse emissions at the opening of UN climate talks despite failing to join other industrialised nations in committing to binding cuts.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born French dramatist (1909-1994); Bruce Paltrow, US director/producer (1943-2002); Tina Turner, US pop singer (1939-); Illona Staller (La Cicciolina), porn star and Italian member of Parliament (1951-)

— AP