TODAY IN HISTORY

Yesterday was Monday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2022. There are 40 days left in the year.

ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY

On Nov. 21, 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.

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.

1967 — President Lyndon

B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.

1979 — A mob attacked the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.

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.

One year ago — A man drove an SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, leaving six people dead and more than 60 injured. (Darrell Brooks Jr. was convicted of 76 counts, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide.)

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 88. Actor Marlo Thomas is

85. Actor Rick Lenz is 83. Actor Juliet Mills is 81. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is

78. Television producer Marcy Carsey is 78. Actor Goldie Hawn is 77. Movie director Andrew Davis is 76. Rock musician Lonnie Jordan (War) is

74. Singer Livingston Taylor is

72. Actor Jimmi Simpson is 47.