November 14 is the 319th day of the year. There are 47 days remaining until the end of the year.
1775 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces when the boy took a break.
1792 Captain George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1851 A book about a whale by Herman Melville is published with a misleading title
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days. She succeeded in 72. Bitch.
1908 Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light
1956 Hungarian revolt is put down. Violently, not sarcastically.
1960 The Illuminati form OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) to control the world
1965 US sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam as punishment for unspecified bad behavior
1968 Spoiling a good thing, Yale University announces it is going co-educational.
1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV. Butt, Matthew McConnaughey gets to be in the movie.
1987 "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 1,761 performances
1993 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st U.S. state. It changes its mind in 2012.
1993 "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 29 performances
1900 Aaron Copland, gay US composer (Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man)
1908 Joseph McCarthy, closeted gay US senator (R-Wisconsin)/asshole
1948 Charles, Prince of Wales, Duke of Rothesay and Cornwall, heir to the English throne, horse-lover
1959 Paul McGann, English actor (Withnail and I, Doctor Who)
1960 Tom Judson, gay US musical comedy performer/composer/pornographic actor Gus Mattox
1961 Jim Moore, gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim
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