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 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 314 days remaining until the end of time.
1790 Society of Friends (Quakers) petitions Congress for abolition of slavery.
1809 Robert Fulton patents steamboat which uses his own hotness to make steam.
1858 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes France who was probably smoking dope at the time and was afraid to admit that she had seen God.
1878 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1902 Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels and are roundly criticized for hitting girls.
1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. Wonder how that turns out.
1977 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) and dairymen in the province work overtime churning "butter."
1990 Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) is freed from Victor Verser Prison in South Africa. What harm could he do?
2006 Dick Cheney "accidentally" shoots his "friend" Harry Whittington in the face. I wonder what he would do to his enemies!?!
1554 Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, finds her head lighter after wearing the crown for 9 days. Her husband, Guilford Dudley, becomes a head shorter, too. Check the basket on the executioner!
2010 Alexander McQueen, gay English fashion designer, leaves us all in stitches.
