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| November 4 is the 309th day of the year. There are 57 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1839 The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed and nicotine-fueled rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. |
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| 1841 1st wagon train arrives in California |
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| 1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents gold crown |
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| 1879 James and John Ritty patent 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon. They should've been watching the go-go boys... |
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| 1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Curses! |
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| 1924 Fashion-forward Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States. |
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| 1939 1st air conditioned automobile, a Packard, is exhibited in Chicago. We now call them convertibles. |
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| 1958 Angelo G. Roncalli is crowned Pope John XXIII, the Good Pope |
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| 1993 Elton John is awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for false report his diet — technically, he doesn’t eat cum. He sips it. |
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| 2008 Proposition 8 passes in California, representing the first ever elimination of an existing right to marry for ALL couples. Just you wait, haters! |
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| 2008 Barack Hussein Obama is elected 44th President of the United States. |
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| 1876 James Earle Fraser, gay US sculptor who designed the "Buffalo" (a.k.a. "Indian Head") nickel |
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| 1896 [Joe Randolph] J.R. Ackerley, gay English writer and editor of a weekly BBC newsmagazine |
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| 1946 Robert Mapplethorpe, gay US photographer |
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| 1960 [Kathleen] Kathy Griffin, US actress and gay icon/D-listed comedian/She'll cut a bitch |
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| 1961 Jeff Probst, US tv host/Survivor |
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| 1964 Doug Wilson, maybe gay US interior designer/Trading Spaces http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933343/ |
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| 1968 Gary Stretch, English boxer turned actor |
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| 1969 Matthew McConaughey, mellow US actor |
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| 1970 Anthony Ruivivar, US actor |
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| 1972 Tim Vincent [Walker], maybe gay Welsh actor/television presenter |
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| 1972 Luis Figo, Portugese soccer player |
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| 1972 Steve Cruz, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1972 Jason Shaw, maybe gay US model/actor |
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| 1974 Matthew Rhys [Evans], maybe gay Welsh actor/Ioan Gruffudd’s housemate for 10 years |
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| 1974 Dan Corsi, English model/actor/singer |
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| 1975 Curtis Stone, Australian chef |
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| 1977 Kavana [Anthony Kavanagh], gay English singer/actor |
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| 1986 Rui Porto Nunes, Portugese actor |
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| 2010 Noel Taylor [Harold Alexander Taylor Jr.], gay US Emmy Award-winning costume designer, gets to play dress-up one more time. |
