Today marks Saturday, November 22, 2025, the 326th day of the year, leaving just 39 days until the year’s end.
Today in history:
On this day in 2017, Ratko Mladić, a Bosnian Serb general responsible for orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre—the most heinous massacre in Europe since World War II—was found guilty of genocide and other crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Also on this date:
Back in 1718, the infamous pirate Edward Teach, better known as “Blackbeard,” met his end during a fierce battle with British naval forces near Ocracoke Island in North Carolina.
In 1935, the China Clipper, a pioneering flying boat, embarked on its maiden trans-Pacific airmail flight from Alameda, California, carrying over 100,000 pieces of mail across the ocean.
The nation was shocked on November 22, 1963, when John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Governor John B. Connally, who was in the car with Kennedy, was severely injured. Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended as the suspected shooter. In the aftermath, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was swiftly sworn in as the new president.
In a historic boxing event in 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson made history by becoming the youngest heavyweight champion ever. He achieved this milestone by defeating WBC titleholder Trevor Berbick in the second round of their Las Vegas match.
In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win reelection to the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced she would resign.
In 2005, Angela Merkel took office as Germany’s first female chancellor.
In 2010, a panicked crush at a festival in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh left nearly 350 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
In 2022, a Walmart manager pulled out a handgun before a routine employee meeting and began firing wildly in the break room of a company store in Chesapeake, Virginia, killing six people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself.
Today’s Birthdays:
- Actor-filmmaker Terry Gilliam is 85.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Jacques Laperrière is 84.
- Astronaut Guion Bluford is 83.
- Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 82.
- Rock musician-actor Steven Van Zandt is 75.
- Rock musician Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) is 75.
- Actor Richard Kind is 69.
- Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 67.
- Actor Mads Mikkelsen is 60.
- Actor Mark Ruffalo is 57.
- Tennis Hall 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.
