12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for November 22, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1718 – Pirate Edward “Blackbeard” Teach is killed in battle off Ocracoke, North Carolina.
- 1858 – Denver City is founded in the Kansas Territory (present-day Colorado).
- 1943 – The Cairo Conference opens as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek plan Allied strategy against Japan.
- 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One.
- 1967 – U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 242, calling for “land for peace” after the Six-Day War.
- 1975 – Juan Carlos I is proclaimed King of Spain, restoring the monarchy after Franco.
- 1986 – Mike Tyson, 20, defeats Trevor Berbick to become the youngest heavyweight boxing champion.
- 1988 – Northrop unveils the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber in Palmdale, California.
- 1990 – U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation after 11½ years in office.
- 1995 – Pixar’s Toy Story premieres in the U.S., the first feature-length fully computer-animated film.
- 2004 – Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” mass protests erupt following a disputed presidential election.
- 2005 – Angela Merkel takes office as Germany’s first female chancellor.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1943 – Billie Jean King, tennis legend and equality advocate (82).
- 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, musician/actor (E Street Band; “The Sopranos”) (75).
- 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, actor/author (“Halloween,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once”) (67).
- 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, actor/author (“Manhattan,” wellness advocate) (64).
- 1967 – Boris Becker, six-time Grand Slam tennis champion (58).
- 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, actor/producer (“Spotlight,” “Avengers”) (58).
- 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, actor/producer (“Lost in Translation,” “Black Widow”) (41).
Today’s Deaths:
- 1916 – Jack London, novelist (“The Call of the Wild,” “White Fang”) (40).
- 1944 – Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist (Eddington limit; 1919 eclipse test of relativity) (62).
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president (46).
- 1963 – C. S. Lewis, writer and scholar (“The Chronicles of Narnia”) (64).
- 1963 – Aldous Huxley, novelist/essayist (“Brave New World”) (69).
- 1993 – Anthony Burgess, novelist/composer (“A Clockwork Orange”) (76).
- 1997 – Michael Hutchence, singer-songwriter (INXS frontman) (37).
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