At the moment is Friday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2025. There are 40 days left within the 12 months.
At the moment in historical past:
On Nov. 21, 1985, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested and accused of spying for Israel. (Pollard later pleaded responsible to espionage and was sentenced to life in jail, however was launched in 2015.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1920, on “Bloody Sunday,” the Irish Republican Military killed 14 suspected British intelligence officers within the Dublin space; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.
In 1964, New York Metropolis’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, on the time the longest suspension bridge on this planet, was opened to visitors.
In 1980, 85 folks died, most from smoke inhalation, after a fireplace broke out on the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The identical day, an estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time cleaning soap opera “Dallas” to seek out out “who shot J.R.” (The shooter turned out to be J.R. Ewing’s sister-in-law, Kristin Shepard.)
In 1990, junk-bond financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded responsible to 6 felony counts associated to violating U.S. securities legal guidelines by promoting junk bonds, was sentenced by a federal choose in New York to 10 years in jail. (Milken served two.)
In 1995, Balkan leaders assembly in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to finish 3 1/2 years of ethnic preventing in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 2017, Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, resigned; he was going through impeachment proceedings and had been positioned below home arrest by the navy. His resignation ended a 37-year rule starting with Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980.
In 2021, an SUV sped via barricades and into marchers in a Christmas parade within the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, killing six folks and injuring a number of others. A choose the next 12 months sentenced Darrell Brooks Jr. to life in jail with out parole for his conviction on first-degree intentional murder and different counts.
In 2022, a robust earthquake killed a minimum of 162 folks and injured a whole bunch on Indonesia’s predominant island of Java, sending terrified residents into streets coated with particles.
Additionally in 2022, NASA’s uncrewed Orion capsule reached the moon, whipping across the far facet and buzzing the lunar floor on an orbit that broke the report for distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to hold people. The mission marked the primary time an American capsule visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo program ended a half-century earlier.
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor Marlo Thomas is 88.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Earl Monroe is 81.
- Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois is 81.
- Actor Goldie Hawn is 80.
- Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is 74.
- Journalist Tina Brown is 72.
- Actor Cherry Jones is 69.
- Gospel musician Steven Curtis Chapman is 63.
- Musician Björk is 60.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Troy Aikman is 59.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. is 56.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer-TV host Michael Strahan (STRAY’-han) is 54.
- Actor Jena Malone is 41.
- Actor-comedian Ronny Chieng is 40.
- Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen is 40.