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
February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 309 days remaining until the end of time.
1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under certain conditions. Her penis must be at least this long. . .
1923 Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus, is curious about the boy king's dick.
1937 DuPont patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
2005 The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
2006 The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
1951 William Katt, US actor/Greatest American Hero
1953 Steve Kmetko, US gay former E News host/journalist/used to date Greg Louganis. I know there is a picture of Steve's meaty buns out there, but I couldn't find it.
