At the moment is Saturday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2025. There are 39 days left within the yr.
At the moment in historical past:
On Nov. 22, 2017, Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb normal whose forces carried out the Srebrenica bloodbath of 1995 — 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.
Additionally on this date:
In 1718, English pirate Edward Train — higher often known as “Blackbeard” — was killed throughout a battle with British naval forces close to Ocracoke Island in 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 1963, John F. Kennedy, the thirty fifth president of the US, was shot to demise throughout a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, using in the identical automotive as Kennedy, was severely wounded. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
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 Get together management on the primary poll, introduced she would resign.
In 2005, Angela Merkel took workplace as Germany’s first feminine chancellor.
In 2010, a panicked crush at a pageant within the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh left almost 350 useless and a whole lot injured in what the prime minister known as the nation’s greatest tragedy because the Seventies reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
In 2022, a Walmart supervisor pulled out a handgun earlier than a routine worker assembly and started firing wildly within the break room of an organization retailer in Chesapeake, Virginia, killing six individuals and wounding six others earlier than fatally capturing himself.
At the moment’s Birthdays:
- Actor-filmmaker Terry Gilliam is 85.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Jacques Laperrière is 84.
- Astronaut Guion Bluford is 83.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Billie Jean King is 82.
- Rock musician-actor Steven Van Zandt is 75.
- Rock musician Tina Weymouth (Speaking Heads) is 75.
- Actor Richard Type is 69.
- Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 67.
- Actor Mads Mikkelsen is 60.
- Actor Mark Ruffalo is 57.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer Boris Becker is 58.
- Actor Scarlett Johansson is 41.
- Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 36.
- Actor Dacre Montgomery is 31.
- Actor Auliʻi Cravalho is 25.