Today is Saturday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2008. There are 60 days left in the year. This is All Saints Day. A reminder: Daylight-saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Clocks go back one hour.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Nov. 1, 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America unveiled its new voluntary film rating system: G for general audiences, M for mature audiences (later changed to GP, then PG), R for restricted audiences, and X (later changed to NC-17) for adults only.

On this date:

n In 1512, Michelangelo finished painting the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

n In 1765, the Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.

n In 1861, Gen. George B. McClellan was made General-in-Chief of the Union armies, succeeding Winfield Scott.

n In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.

n In 1973, following the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.

n In 1979, former first lady Mamie Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C., at age 82.

Today’s Birthdays: Newspaper columnist James J. Kilpatrick is 88. Actress Betsy Palmer is 82. Golfer Gary Player is 73. Country singer Bill Anderson is 71. Country singer Kinky Friedman is 64. Country singer Lyle Lovett is 51. Actress Rachel Ticotin is 50. Rock musician Eddie MacDonald (The Alarm) is 49. Actor David Berman (TV: “CSI”) is 35. Rock singer Bo Bice (“American Idol”) is 33. Actor Penn Badgley is 22. Actor-musician Alex Wolff is 11.

Thought for Today: “Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”—Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet (1887-1964).

—Associated Press