Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 335th day of 2016. There are 31 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Robert Guillaume is 89. G. Gordon Liddy is 86. Movie director Ridley Scott is 79. Writer-director Terrence Malick is 73. Playwright David Mamet is 69. Actor Mandy Patinkin is 64. Singer Billy Idol is 61. Historian/author Michael Beschloss is 61. Comedian Colin Mochrie is 59. Former football and baseball player Bo Jackson is 54. Actor Ben Stiller is 51. Actress Sandra Oh is 46. Singer Clay Aiken is 38.

In 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War; the Treaty of Paris was signed in September of 1783.

In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — was born in Florida, Mo.

In 1874, British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.

In 1939, the Winter War began as Soviet troops invaded Finland. (The conflict ended with a Soviet victory.)

In 2011, the central banks of the wealthiest countries, trying to prevent a debt crisis in Europe from exploding into a global panic, swept in to shore up the world financial system by making it easier for banks to borrow American dollars.

Last year, jury selection began in Baltimore in the trial of William Porter, the first of six policemen to face charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of a severe spinal injury while in police custody. (All charges against Porter were dropped after a mistrial; three other officers were acquitted; all remaining charges were later dropped.)