Today is Friday, November twenty second, the 327th day of 2024. There are 39 days left within the 12 months.
Today in history:
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth President of the United States, was shot during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Governor John B. Connally, who was in the identical automotive as Kennedy, was seriously injured. Suspected shooter Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
Also on this date:
In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach – higher often known as “Blackbeard” – was killed during a battle off what’s now North Carolina.
In 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history, stopping WBC titleholder Trevor Berbick within the second round of their championship fight in Las Vegas.
In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation after failing to win re-election to the leadership of the Conservative Party in the primary round of voting.
In 2005, Angela Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'-kuhl) took office as Germany's first female chancellor.
In 2010, a panicked crowd at a festival within the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh left about 350 dead and lots of injured. The prime minister called it the country's best tragedy because the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror within the Nineteen Seventies.
In 2017, Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, was sentenced to life in prison by the United Nations Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal for genocide and other crimes.
Today's birthdays:
- Actor and filmmaker Terry Gilliam is 84.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Jacques Laperrière is 83.
- Astronaut script (GEYE'-uhn) Bluford is
- Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 81.
- Rock musician and actor Steven Van Zandt is 74.
- The rock musician Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) is 74.
- Actor Richard Kind is 68.
- Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 66.
- Actor Mads Mikkelsen is 59.
- Actor Mark Ruffalo is 57.
- Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker is 57.
- Actress Scarlett Johansson is 40.
- Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 35.
- Actor Dacre Montgomery is 30.
- Actor Auliʻi Cravalho is 24.
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