| 1620 | The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod. | |
| 1828 | In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31. | |
| 1861 | Julia Ward Howe writes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington. | |
| 1863 | Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| 1885 | Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza. | |
| 1873 | James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation. | |
| 1897 | The Great "City Fire" in London. | |
| 1905 | 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks. | |
| 1911 | New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. | |
| 1915 | The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers. | |
| 1923 | The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures. | |
| 1926 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad. | |
| 1949 | Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco. | |
| 1952 | Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe. | |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 touches down on the moon. | |
| 1973 | New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years. | |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail. | |
| 1981 | U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil. | |
| 1985 | Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time. | |
| 1985 | In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco. | |
| 1990 | Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know Its True album. | |
| 1996 | Canada’s Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire. | |
| 1998 | US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton. | |
| 2010 | New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed. |
I'm
thankful my mom taught me how to cook an entire Thanksgiving meal from
scratch, and over the years I've volunteered to "do Thanksgiving" time
and time again simply to gain experience.
The city wanted to signal that life in the Midwest wasn't as dreary and desperate as it might seem, and, as Pamela H. Simpson writes in Corn Palaces and Butter Queens, the idea for the palace came from a town meeting, at which one enterprising man asked “why, if Saint Paul and Toronto could have ice palaces, Sioux City couldn’t have a corn palace.”Of course, pictures were taken of the various crop palaces, and you can see them as well as read about them at Atlas Obscura.
The palace the city built was such a success that President Grover Cleveland came to visit, and almost immediately, other cities started work on their own agricultural edifices. In 1889, there was a Texas Spring Palace, decorated not just with corn but with oats, cactus, moss and johnson grass. Ottumwa, Iowa, made a Coal Palace, built on a foundation of coal and walled with coal mixed with mortar. By 1890, there was a bluegrass palace, a hay palace, Forest City’s flax palace, and a sugar beet palace in Grand Island, Nebraska, followed in the next years by a grain palace, broom palace, and more and more corn palaces.
A woman and Playboy Enterprises have settled a lawsuit in which the
plaintiff alleged she was hurt when a co-host of The Playboy Morning
Show struck her in the buttocks with a golf club during a photo shoot at
the Playboy Golf Finals in 2012.
An attorney for Elizabeth Dickson told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge
Holly Fujie on Monday that the case was resolved. 
Dickson agreed to have a photo taken of her lying on her stomach “with
her buttocks partially exposed” while Kevin Klein, co-host of Playboy’s
radio show, stood poised to hit a golf ball put on top of a tee that
was inserted between the cheeks of her buttocks, the suit stated.
However, Klein unexpectedly swung the club and “struck plaintiff on the buttocks, causing her injuries and damages,” the suit alleged.
“But these bills have rarely made it out of committee, in part due to vehement opposition from the National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress. The NRA objected to earlier versions of the bill, saying they were “aimed primarily at law-abiding American gun owners,” that “prohibiting the possession of firearms doesn’t stop criminals from illegally acquiring them,” and that the bills were “sponsored by gun control extremists.”The NRA will do and say anything to keep even the most reasonable gun law from being enacted. They have in fact accused President Obama of planning to confiscate law-abiding citizens’ guns. In the wake of another mass murder, when the American public is really fed up with the gun laws, the NRA doubles down on the crazy, like this: “What Obama is really proposing, despite some platitudes to the contrary, is the end of private firearm ownership for self-defense…”
A former police officer in New Zealand carried out a four-month
"campaign of hatred" against a dominatrix he had been seeing then helped
her install a security system to try and catch the culprit, a court has
heard.
Jason Karl Harris, 43, appeared in Auckland District Court on Monday
afternoon after admitting to intimidating the woman and unlawfully
accessing the police database to find out more about her.
He was sentenced to three and a half months home detention, 100 hours of
community work and ordered to pay the woman $3,000 - what she had paid
for the home-security system.
Harris also had to stand in the dock while the victim revealed he was a
"cross-dressing, gay prostitute".
The victim, who read her victim-impact statement in court, said the
former Pukekohe police officer clearly took great pleasure in seeing the
stress he caused her.
Staggering red collar lorikeets in Australia's Northern Territory are
not actually intoxicated after all - and it’s taken more than five years
for the record to be corrected.
Back in 2010 a phenomenon was first observed in Darwin of
lorikeets falling out of trees, staggering around looking drunk, and
finding it difficult to perch themselves atop of branches.
All the hallmarks of a bit too much of the good nectar.
But now it has been revealed that the poor parrots have received a bad
wrap for the past five years because they were probably never really
drunk after all.
It turns out that the most likely explanation is a seasonal virus, akin
to the human flu season, that seems to strike the colorful birds in the
Top End build-up each year.
Wildcare spokeswoman Barbara Backers, who recently had 19 lorikeets in
care, have said that the likely respiratory infection was temporary and
usually saw the condition resolved within two weeks.
“It seems to get into their system and they end up not being able to
perch or they can’t lean up properly against a tree,” Ms Backers said.
Dan Drennan from Western New York loves flying, and he also loves dogs. 
| 1477 | William Claxton publishes the first dated book printed in England. It is a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosopers by Earl Rivers. | |
| 1626 | St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome is officially dedicated. | |
| 1861 | The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Mark Twain’s first story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press. | |
| 1901 | The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America. | |
| 1905 | The Norwegian Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles takes the name Haakon VII. | |
| 1906 | Anarchists bomb St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. | |
| 1912 | Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1921 | New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams. | |
| 1928 | Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture. | |
| 1936 | The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined. | |
| 1939 | The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus. | |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Berlin, using 440 aircraft and losing nine of those and 53 air crew members; damage to the German capital is light, with 131 dead. | |
| 1949 | The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days. | |
| 1950 | The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts. | |
| 1968 | Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon. | |
| 1978 | Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after cult member killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California. | |
| 1983 | Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. | |
| 1984 | The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine. | |
| 1991 | The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People’s Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege. | |
| 1993 | Twenty-one political parties approve a new constitution for South Africa that expands voter rights and ends the rule of the country’s white minority. | |
| 2002 | UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. | |
| 2003 | Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional; the legislature fails to act within the mandated 180 days, and on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage. |
VICE: What's the backstory of the museum?
Peter Foynes: The museum was opened in 1997 by a group of local businesspeople. In particular, [they wanted] to mark the old Butter Exchange in the city, that used to be the biggest butter market in the world. But also to commemorate Ireland's dairy history, which is really quite important. So that was the initial idea. The old Butter Exchange became vacant in 1996, so that was the ideal place for it.
Wait, what's a Butter Exchange?
In 1769, there was a group of people in the city called the Committee of Merchants that decided they wanted to take regulation into their own hands. There was butter trading in the city before that, but it was unsatisfactory. So the Merchants introduced a system of quality checking, basically grading the butter themselves. Over time, it also became a system for dealers to go through to get their butter because it would then have the mark of the Butter Exchange of Cork on it and that was a good thing to have. […]
11 Tips staff in a private house and a gamekeeper in the shooting fieldHorrors! I must amend this mistake immediately. On the other hand, I have met some qualifications:
30 Has read Pride and PrejudiceMany years ago, a lady once jokingly said that she would go on a date with me if I read Pride and Prejudice. I immediately did so and actually went on no fewer than two dates with her.
34 Sandals? No. NeverOf course not. Even my manservants don't do this in their private lives. If they did, they would not remain in my employment.
28 Knows when to use an emojiAnd that time is known as "never."
9. SEATBACK GUY
To recline or not to recline: Emotions run high around this question, and 32 percent of those surveyed can’t stand the ones who do. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of Americans say they would either prefer to have reclining seats banned entirely or at least restricted to set times during short-haul flights. Yet only 31 percent refuse to recline their own seats. Among the larger percentage who do lean back, 30 percent do so when they plan to sleep, 28 percent recline if the flight exceeds three hours, and 13 percent do so immediately after takeoff. Thirteen percent recline when the passenger in front of them does, domino-style, and 26 percent would recline their seat punitively if the passenger behind them was aggressive or rude. Twelve percent would still recline if the passenger behind them was tall, and 10 percent would recline even if the passenger behind them was noticeably pregnant.
