At the moment is Friday, Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2024. There are 39 days left within the 12 months.
At the moment in historical past:
On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth president of the USA, was shot to demise throughout a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, using in the identical automobile as Kennedy, was significantly wounded. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
Additionally on this date:
In 1718, English pirate Edward Educate — higher often known as “Blackbeard” — was killed throughout a battle off what’s now North Carolina.
In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying greater than 100,000 items of mail on the primary trans-Pacific airmail flight.
In 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson turned the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in historical past, stopping WBC titleholder Trevor Berbick within the second spherical of their championship bout in Las Vegas.
In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having did not win reelection to the Conservative Celebration management on the primary poll, introduced she would resign.
In 2005, Angela Merkel (AHN’-geh-lah MEHR’-kuhl) took workplace as Germany’s first feminine chancellor.
In 2010, a panicked crush at a competition within the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh left some 350 useless and a whole lot injured in what the prime minister referred to as the nation’s largest tragedy for the reason that Seventies reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
In 2017, Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb basic whose forces carried out the worst bloodbath in Europe since World Struggle II, was convicted of genocide and different crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav battle crimes tribunal and sentenced to life behind bars.
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor-filmmaker Terry Gilliam is 84.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Jacques Laperrière is 83.
- Astronaut Guion (GEYE’-uhn) Bluford is 82.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Billie Jean King is 81.
- Rock musician-actor Steven Van Zandt is 74.
- Rock musician Tina Weymouth (Speaking Heads) is 74.
- Actor Richard Sort is 68.
- Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 66.
- Actor Mads Mikkelsen is 59.
- Actor Mark Ruffalo is 57.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Boris Becker is 57.
- Actor Scarlett Johansson is 40.
- Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 35.
- Actor Dacre Montgomery is 30.
- Actor Auliʻi Cravalho is 24.