TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Nov. 21, 1985

U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested accused of spying for Israel.

ALSO ON THIS DATE

1789

North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1920

The Irish Republican Army killed 12British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14civilians.

1927

Picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed.

1934

The Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened on Broadway.

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.

1979

A mob attacked the U-S Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.

1980

87people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1990

Junk-bond financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded guilty to six felony counts, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to ten years in prison.

1995

Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actress Marlo Thomas is 82. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 75. Actress Goldie Hawn is 74. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 56. Singer-actress Bjork is 54. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman is 53. Baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. is 50. Football player-turned-TV personality Michael Strahan is 48. Actor Jimmi Simpson is 44. Actress Jena Malone is 35. Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen is 34. Actor-singer Sam Palladio is 32.