Right now is Friday, Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2024. There are 39 days left within the yr.
Right now in historical past:
On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth president of america, was shot to loss of life 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 called “Blackbeard” — was killed throughout a battle off what’s now North Carolina.
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 didn’t win reelection to the Conservative Social gathering 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 known as the nation’s largest tragedy for the reason that Nineteen Seventies reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
In 2017, Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb normal whose forces carried out the worst bloodbath in Europe since World Battle II, was convicted of genocide and different crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav warfare crimes tribunal and sentenced to life behind bars.
Right now’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 Type 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.
