DYR Today, November 22

“Born Today”

• Hailey Baldwin (19)
• Adele Exarchopoulos (22)
• Jamie Campbell Bower (27)
• Oscar Pistorius (29)
• Scarlett Johansson (31)
• Tyler Hilton (32)
• Shangela Laquifa Wadley (34)
• Karen O (37)
• Ville Valo (39)
• Boris Becker (48)
• Mark Ruffalo (48)
• Michael Kenneth Williams (49)
• Mads Mikkelsen (50)
• Mariel Hemingway (54)
• Jamie Lee Curtis (57) Featured Above
• Donny Deutsch (58)
• Richard Kind (59)
• Steve Van Zandt (65)
• Billie Jean King (72)
• Terry Gilliam (75)
• Robert Vaughn (83)

“Died Today”

• CS Lewis (Born: November 29, 1898 / Died: November 22, 1963)
• John F. Kennedy (Born: May 29, 1917 / Died: November 22, 1963)
• Mae West (Born: August 17, 1893 / Died: November 22, 1980)
• Mary Kay Ash (Born: May 12, 1918 / Died: November 22, 2001)

“Movies”

• 1967 – Rosie!
• 1972 – Rage
• 1978 – Same Time, Next Year
• 1985 – Bad Medicine
• 1985 – Fever Pitch
• 1985 – King Solomon’s Mines
• 1985 – One Magic Christmas
• 1985 – Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
• 1985 – White Nights
• 1989 – Back to the Future Part II
• 1991 – The Addams Family
• 1991 – An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
• 1991 – For the Boys
• 1991 – Beauty and the Beast
• 1995 – Casino
• 1995 – Money Train
• 1995 – Nick of Time
• 1995 – Toy Story
• 1995 – Two Bits
• 1996 – Jingle All the Way
• 1996 – Star Trek: First Contact
• 2000 – 102 Dalmatians
• 2000 – Unbreakable

“Music”

• 1963 – The Beatles’ album With the Beatles was released
• 1965 – Stevie Wonder released the single “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)”

• 1969 – “Wedding Bell Blues” by The 5th Dimension was #1 for its third week
• 1969 – The Beatles’ album Abbey Road was the #1 album for its fourth week
• 1971 – “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” was released

• 1981 – Rolling Stones members joined Muddy Waters on stage at the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago, Illinois
• 1983 – The single “Middle of the Road” by The Pretenders was released
• 1988 – Paula Abdul released her single “Straight Up”

• 1994 – Pearl Jam released their third album Vitalogy

“TV/Radio”

• 1975 – “Dr. Zhivago” appeared on TV for the first time. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.
• 1998 – CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.

“Other Important Events”

• 1963 – U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.
• 1984 – Fred Rogers of PBS’ “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” presented a sweater to the Smithsonian Institution.

• 1985 – 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States. It was the largest swearing-in ceremony.
• 1986 – Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.