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
May 19 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 216 days remaining until the end of time.
1856 Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, speaks out against slavery and gets his ass beaten by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks
1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1897 Dear Oscar is released from Reading Gaol
1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Calaveras County, California)
1960 Alan Freed and eight other DJ are accused of taking radio payola
1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431, but his rookie card isn’t worth a tenth of Wagner’s. Perhaps if they used a different pose. . .
1962 Marilyn Monroe sings Happy Birthday to President Kennedy at Madison Square Garden
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3. We support the troops!
1992 Dan Quayle cites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He’s cute, but no Doogie Howser
