November 21st

November 21  is the 326th day of the year.  There are 40 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times even though Guiness has not begun collecting world records yet

 

1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter

1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot

1963 John F. Kennedy flies to Texas. I don’t have a good feeling about this...

1974 Freedom of Information Act passes over President Ford's veto

1980 John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum. Love him. Hate her. Here is a notable re-creation of the event. Still love him.

1980 Lake Peigneur (near New Iberia, Louisiana) drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucks the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit. Boy, are their faces red.

 

1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" single goes #1 and stays for 10 weeks

1995 The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and leading to STLMO having the largest population of Bosnians outside of Bosnia

2004 The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt if Saddam agrees to take it up the ass

1920 Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder/first baseman ("Stan the Man")/Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient 2010/bad harmonica player 

1938 Robert Drivas [Robert Choromokos], gay US actor/director 

1942 Tweety Bird (aka Tweety Pie), evil gay US cartoon character, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"

1961 Alexander Siddig [Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi], Sudan-born English actor 

1963 Troy Aikman, US quarterback/Dallas Cowboys 

1965 Johnny Hanson, gay US pornographic actor  

1966 Eric Caravaca, maybe gay French actor 

1966 [Policarpo] Poli Diaz, Spanish boxer 

1970 [Robert] Rib Hillis, US model/actor 

1970 Viktor Perseo, gay Russian pornographic actor  

1976 Daniel Whiston, gay English figure skater 

1978 Xavi Oribe, Spanish actor 

1983 Blake McGrath, bisexual Canadian dancer/singer 

1986 Nido Barroso, Brazilian model   

1986 James Zinkand, US Big Brother contestant/gay pornographic actor 

1988 Cameron Bailey, US model 

1958 Mel Ott, US baseball star (New York Giants), goes down swinging, but not on Johnny McCarthy

1959 Max Baer, US heavyweight boxing champ (1934), sends his son to live with Uncle Jed and Granny

1993 Emile Ardolino, gay US director (Dirty Dancing,Sister Act), succumbs to AIDS at 50

1999 Quentin Crisp, writer (The Naked Civil Servant), becomes even more fabulous.

2010 Prince Chunk, 10, obese US cat, starts exercising by running out of lives.