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
March 2 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 294 days remaining until the end of time.
1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances despite much trepidation
1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico. Peen, yes. Peonage, no.
1933 "King Kong" premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City. Due to the moral sensibilities of the times, Kong's dong is tucked in a posing strap.
1955 William Inge's "Bus Stop" premieres in New York City. My, my, just look at Don Murray in those Wrangler jeans!
1976 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances. It would’ve run longer with Boris Kodjoe in the title role IMHO
1977 Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive AFI Life Achievement Award
