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
May 24 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 211 days remaining until the end of time.
1738 John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, all Anglican priests, have religious experiences in Georgia.. Methodism begins. I have had great experiences in Georgia where I said, "Oh. God" a lot, but I didn’t claim it was a religious experience.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. Al Qaeda immediately tries to blow it up, but Chester Arthur’s Homeland Security team claims it was only a fireworks display.
1895 Henry Irving becomes the first heterosexual person from the theatre to be knighted.
1956 The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. QUICK—Name the winner.
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania
1961 Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1988 Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted. Fucking Tories. . .
1994 Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. They are eligible for parole in 120 years.
2004 North Korea bans mobile phones two years after banning food.
1819 Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India
1879 H. B. Reese, US inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founder of H. B. Reese Candy Co., blessed by God for the deliverence of mankind unto happiness
