DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2020. There are 40 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1920: The Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.
1922: Rebecca L. Felton, a Georgia Democrat, was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate; her term, the result of an interim appointment, ended the following day as Walter F. George, the winner of a special election, took office.
1931: The Universal horror film “Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as his creator, was first released.
1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.
1969: The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930.
1973: President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18- 1⁄2- minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1980: 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1985: U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested accused of spying for Israel. (Pollard later pleaded guilty to espionage and was sentenced to life in prison; he was released on parole on Nov. 20, 2015.)
1992: A three-day tornado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.; 26 people were killed. Sen. Bob Packwood, R-ore., issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he’d made unwelcome sexual advances toward ten women over the years. (Faced with a threat of expulsion, Packwood ended up resigning from the Senate in 1995.)
1995: Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-herzegovina.
2001: Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old resident of Oxford, Conn., died of inhalation anthrax; she was the apparent last victim of a series of anthrax attacks carried out through the mail system.
2018: President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts publicly clashed over the independence of America’s judiciary, with Roberts rebuking the president for denouncing a judge as an “Obama judge.”
Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 86. Actor Marlo Thomas is 83. Actor Juliet Mills (“Passions,” “Nanny and the Professor”) is 79. Actor Goldie Hawn is 75. Keyboardist Lonnie Jordan of War is 72. Singer Livingston Taylor is 70. Actor-singer
Lorna Luft is 68. Actor
Cherry Jones (“The Horse Whisperer”) is 64. Bassist Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes is 60. Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 58. Actor Nicollette Sheridan is 57. Singer Bjork (BYORK) is 55. Singer Chauncey Hannibal of Blackstreet is 52. Bassist Alex James of Blur is 52. Rapper Pretty Lou of Lost Boyz is 49. Football playerturned-tv host Michael Strahan (“Good Morning America,” “Live With Kelly and Michael”) is 49.