November 22nd

November 22  is the 327th day of the year.  There are 39 days remaining until the end of the year.

1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin

1930 Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit and popularizes the bean pie. Yum!

1932 Gasoline pump that computes quantity and price is patented

1954 The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

1957 Simon and Garfunkel appear on American Bandstand as "Tom and Jerry" who are sued for trademark infringement by a better-known cat and mouse duo.

1965 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City for 2329 tiltings of "windmills"

1968 1st interracial TV kiss: Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura. I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t do anything for me.

1985 Largest swearing-in ceremony: 38,648 immigrants become U.S. citizens. . .but there is a catch.

1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

1988 SPOILER: In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

2005 Ted Koppel's hosts his last show of Nightline since the Iran hostage crisis ended nearly 25 years earlier.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first Chancellor of Germany with tits AND balls

1869 André Gide, bisexual French writer. Immoralist. Nobel Laureate. Who knew he was so yummy when he was young?

1913 Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, gay English composer/conductor whose favorite tenor was also his lover Peter Pears 

1921 Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen], US comedian/actor/respect seeker 

1935 Michael Callan [Martin Calinieff], US actor 

1939 Allen Garfield [Goorwitz], maybe gay US actor/director 

1943 Billie Jean King, gay US tennis great 

1958 Bruce Payne, maybe gay English actor 

1963 Winsor Harmon, maybe gay US actor 

1964 Stephen Geoffreys [Miller], gay US actor

1965 Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor 

1967 Mark Ruffalo, US actor 

1967 Boris Becker, German tennis great 

1968 Nicholas Boulton, maybe gay Gibraltar-born English actor 

1970 Emmanuel Petit, French soccer player 

1972 Olivier Brouzet, French rugger/Dieux du Stade model

1974 Kyran Bracken, Irish rugger 

1975 James Madio, maybe gay US actor 

1978 Leo Gregory, maybe gay English actor 

1978 Jochen Schropp, maybe gay German actor 

1979 Josh Cooke, maybe gay US actor 

1979 Raul Arevalo, Spanish actor 

1986 Matt Clifton, Australian actor/model 

1916 Jack London, US author, hears the call of the wild

1943 Lorenz Hart, gay US lyricist, becomes bewitched, bothered and bewildered

1955 Shemp Howard [Samuel Horwitz], US actor/icon (3 Stooges), remains blessed by God

1963 All in all, John F Kennedy, 35th US President (1961-63), would rather be in Philadelphia.

1980 Mae West, US actress (She Done Him Wrong), finds out that Big Daddy does not have a pistol in his pocket

2010 Jean Cione, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher (Rockford Peaches), doesn’t cry because. . .there’s no crying in baseball.