On this day in 1389 Geoffrey Chaucer was named chief clerk of the king's work in Westminster by Richard II. I'm not sure what this meant, aside from the fact that those in power once recognized the value of poets. In 1933 the first Dymaxion car was produced in Bridgeport CT. Designed by Buckminster Fuller and styled by Isamu Noguchi, it was either ahead of its time or a product whose time will never arrive. Whichever, it was more successful as a concept than as an automobile revolution. And in 1979 the Chicago White Sox made only their second contribution to American culture (the first being the 1919 Black Sox scandal
) when their "Disco Demolition" promotion resulted in a riot where 9 were injured, 39 arrested, the game was forfeited to the Tigers, and disco was, with the rest of us, put out of its misery.