Famous deaths
2018 – Chas Hodges (b. 1943), English musician and singer. He was the lead vocalist, pianist and guitarist of the musical duo Chas & Dave.
On This Day 2025
Hello, … Welcome to day 326 of the year.

Saturday, November 22nd Daily Prep.

Known as Love Your Freckles Day, National Adoption Day, Go For A Ride Day. Your star sign is Sagittarius and your birthstone is Topaz.
2003 – England’s rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final in Sydney. Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson lands winning drop goal in extra time.
England's rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final in Sydney. Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson lands winning drop goal in extra time.
Today’s birthdays
1940 – Terry Gilliam (85), American-British filmmaker and comedian (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis (67), American actress (Halloween Franchise, Trading Places, True Lies, Freaky Friday) born in Santa Monica, California, United States.
1967 – Boris Becker (58), German former world No. 1 tennis player and youngest ever winner of the singles Wimbledon Championships title (17), born in Leimen, Germany.
1979 – Scott Robinson (46), English singer, radio presenter (Radio Essex) and a member of the boy band Five (“Keep On Movin’”), born in Basildon, Essex.

1984 – Scarlett Johansson (41), American actress (Lucy, Black Widow, Ghost in the Shell), born in Manhattan, New York, United States.

1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower (37), English actor, singer and model (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Twilight trilogy), born in London.
1996 – Hailey Bieber (29), American model, media personality, daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin and wife of Justin Bieber since 2018, born in Tucson, Arizona, United States.
Famous deaths
1963 – John F. Kennedy (b. 1917), The 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president at 43 years.

1963 – C. S. Lewis (b. 1898), British writer, literary scholar (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).

1997 – Michael Hutchence (b. 1960), Australian singer-songwriter and the co-founder, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band INXS (“Need You Tonight”).

The day today
1943 – World War II: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1946 – The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale in the UK, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by the Miles Martin Pen Company, a British firm.

1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nelly Connally.

1963 – Queen Elizabeth II orders the ringing of the bell at Westminster Abbey for John F. Kennedy after his assassination, first time the bells are rung for someone outside the royal family.
1977 – The world’s first supersonic airliner, Concorde, was given permission to fly into New York’s Kennedy Airport following an agreement over noise levels.
1986 – At 20-years old, Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in history when he stops Trevor Berbick in round 2 at the Las Vegas Hilton to earn the WBC title.
1990 – Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership that had begun in 1979.
1995 – Britain’s most prolific female serial killer, Rosemary West, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls. West’s victims include her 16-year-old daughter, her eight-year-old stepdaughter and her husband’s pregnant lover.
1995 – “Toy Story,” the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released. The film was a major success for Pixar and was released by Walt Disney Pictures. It received three Oscar nominations and a Special Achievement Academy Award.
2003 – England’s rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final in Sydney. Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson lands winning drop goal in extra time.
2007 – The day after England’s hopes of qualifying for Euro 2008 ended with a 3-2 defeat against Croatia, England boss Steve McClaren is christened the ‘Wally with a brolly’ in the national press and sacked by the FA after just 18 games in charge.
2014 – Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona sets a new goal scoring record in La Liga of 253 goals. The Argentinian netted his 253rd goals in the league to surpass the legendary Telmo Zarra’s tally of 252. It was a record that most people assumed was impossible to break in modern football. But a hat-trick against Sevilla at the Camp Nou did the trick.
2018 – After 20 years of work, the major stabilization project on the Leaning Tower of Pisa had its lean corrected by 17.7 inches (45 cm).
2019 – English actor and comedian, Sacha Baron Cohen says if Facebook existed in the 1930s it would have run Hitler’s ads on his “solution to the Jewish problem”, in a speech to the Anti-Defamation League summit.
Today in music
1968 – The Beatles double White Album was released in the UK. Featuring ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’, ‘Dear Prudence’, ‘Helter Skelter’, ‘Blackbird’ ‘Back In The USSR’ and George Harrison’s ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. Priced at £3.13 shillings, it spent eight weeks as the UK No.1 album.

1975 – Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with a parody of the Tammy Wynette song D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Connolly’s early career as a singer led to him forming a folk-pop duo called The Humblebums in the late 60s, with future rock star Gerry Rafferty.

1975 – KC and the Sunshine Band started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘That’s The Way (I Like It)’, the group’s second US No.1 of the year, it made No.4 in the UK.
1980 – ABBA scored their sixth UK No.1 album when Super Trouper started a nine week run at the top of the charts. The album which features the No.1 singles ‘The Winner Takes It All’ and ‘Super Trouper’, became the biggest-selling of 1980 in the UK.
1997 – INXS frontman Michael Hutchence was found dead in his Sydney hotel suite, having taken his own life. The 37 year old, who co-founded the best-selling Australian band in 1977, was beloved for his emotive vocals and captivating live performances.
1998 – Alanis Morissette was at No.1 on the US album chart (No.3 in the UK) with her fourth album ‘Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.’ The first single from album ‘Thank You’ received a Grammy Award nomination for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”.
2004 – Ozzy Osbourne struggled with a burglar who escaped with jewellery worth about £2m from his Buckinghamshire mansion. Osbourne told reporters that he had the masked raider in a headlock as he tried to stop him. The burglar broke free and jumped 30 ft from a first floor window. A large amount of jewellery was stolen in the raid in which two burglars were involved.
2005 – A gig by former Stone Roses front man Ian Brown was abandoned after 20 minutes because the floor at the venue began to sag. 2,000 people were told to leave Newcastle’s Carling Academy, which had only been open for a month. Organisers said it was simply a safety precaution after joists under the main dance floor came out of their springs.
Today in history
1594 – The death of Sir Martin Frobisher, the English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. His knighthood was awarded for service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.
1595 – English fleet led by Francis Drake and John Hawkins unsuccessfully attack San Juan, Puerto Rico during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1718 – Edward Teach, the English pirate who sailed under the name of Blackbeard, was killed in battle off the coast of North Carolina, with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1774 – Robert Clive, English soldier often referred to as ‘Clive of India’, died, possibly from an overdose of opium. It may have been suicide, but suicide was regarded as a sin, and if this had been admitted by his family he would not have been allowed a church burial. As it is, his grave was unmarked and remains so.
1819 – The birth, in Nuneaton, of Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot. She was an English novelist (Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss), poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
1869 – The clipper Cutty Sark was launched In Dumbarton, Scotland. She was one of the last clippers ever built, and is the only one still surviving today. She is preserved as a museum ship, located near the centre of Greenwich, in south-east London.