November 25th

November 25  is the 330th day of the year.  There are 36 days remaining until the end of the year.

1817 1st sword swallower in U.S. performs in New York City. He is overwhelmingly popular on his days off.

1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa

1867 Cutie-patooty Swede, Alfred Nobel, patents dynamite

1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy. Enjoy it while you got it.

1920 Gimbel's of Philadelphia sponsors 1st Thanksgiving Parade

1940 Woody Woodpecker, an obviously penis-obsessed gay bird, debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"

1947 Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" [ Alvah Bessie, screenwriter; Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director; Lester Cole, screenwriter; Edward Dmytryk, director; Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter; John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; Albert Maltz, screenwriter; Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter; Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter; Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter] are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. They didn’t enjoy being blackballed as much as this guy.

1959 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 460 performances...with a few more times on the mattress, it might have had more performances

1963 John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, and eternal flames become a fad among the fortunate few

1979 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 53 performances when it is revealed that Enzyte really doesn’t work as promised

1986 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office in her prodigious cleavage which, ironically, is how she got the job in the first place

2010 A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified in Thailand.  To hell with PETA and Greenpeace.  I'm glad the mofo is extinct!

1870 [Bernard Francis] Solanus Casey, US Capuchin priest declared venerable/candidate for beatification/imagine it–a Blessed Sunny Asshole 

1869 Virgil Thomson, influential gay US composer 

1914 Joe DiMaggio, US baseball center fielder (New York Yankees)/married Marilyn Monroe 

1920 Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-US actor/Mr. Rourke/KHAAANNN!!!/sexy mofo 

1955 Bruno Tonioli, gay Italian-born English dancer/Dancing With The Stars judge 

1956 Steve Rambo, gay US pornographic actor   

1960 John F. Kennedy, Jr., long rumored to be gay US Presidential spawn/lawyer/journalist/publisher 

1961 Mattias Freihof, gay German actor/rimmer 

1962 Lance [David Alan Reis], gay US pornographic actor/AIDS victim 

1965 [Stephen] Dougray Scott, US actor 

1974 Giampaolo Morelli, Italian actor 

1974 Hakan Serbes, heterosexual German pornographic actor 

1984 Gaspard Ulliel, French actor/young Hannibal 

1973 Laurence Harvey [Laruschka Mischa Skikne], bisexual English actor (Of Human Bondage), is released from human bondage

2005 George Best, Northern Irish footballer too pretty not to have been photographed naked, gets kicked out of bounds