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| November 19 is the 324th day of the year. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1850 Flaming queen, Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate |
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| 1863 President Lincoln delivers a two-minute address in Gettysburg after Edward Everett’s 2 hour oration. |
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| 1928 1st issue of Time magazine has Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover |
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| 1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe. Is it just me or does Ike look a little light in the loafers in this pose? |
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| 1959 Ford cancels Edsel—the car, not the heir |
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| 1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created. Calling them "pastries" is a stretch, but they kept my kids quiet on the way to school each morning. |
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| 1969 Brazilian football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal and celebrates by letting reporters photograph him in the shower.. |
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| 1976 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail |
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| 1997 In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2011 but no reality tv show. |
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| 2001 The World Toilet Association conference begins in Singapore with some 200 delegates from all over the world. |
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| 1893 Chris-Pin Martin [Ysabel Ponciana Chris-Pin Martin Paiz], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1896 Anton Walbrook [Adolf Wohlbrück], gay Austrian actor |
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| 1919 Morris Kight, gay US gay rights pioneer/peace activist |
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| 1953 Robert Beltran, US actor |
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| 1962 [Alicia] Jodie Foster, gay US premier actress/director/producer |
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| 1963 Gary Riley, maybe gay STLMO-born US actor (Stand By Me) |
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| 1965 Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor |
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| 1966 Jason Scott Lee, US actor |
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| 1966 Rocco DiSpirito, maybe gay US chef/reality TV personality |
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| 1968 Tom Vize, STLMO-born Kathy Griffin's Tour Manager |
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| 1974 Iván Sánchez, Spanish actor |
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| 1978 Flavio & Gustavo Mendonca, Brazilian models/actors |
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| 1978 Chad Doreck, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1703 Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner in Bastille/king of France?, rusts |
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| 1828 Franz Schubert, gay Austrian composer, hits a minor chord |
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| 1887 Emma Lazarus, maybe gay US poet (New Colossus), is tempest-tost |
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| 1915 Joe Hill [Joel Emmanuel Hägglund], maybe gay Swedish-born US Labor leader/songwriter, executed on trumped up murder charges |
