► Today is Monday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2010. There are 39 days left in the year.
► Today’s birthdays: Movie director Arthur Hiller is 87. Actor Robert Vaughn is 78. Actor Michael Callan is 75. Actor Allen Garfield is 71. Director Terry Gilliam is 70. Actor Tom Conti is 69. Singer Jesse Colin Young is 69. Astronaut Guion Bluford is 68. Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 67. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt is 60. Rock musician Tina Weymouth is 60. Retired MLB All-Star Greg Luzinski is 60. Rock musician Lawrence Gowan is 54. Actor Richard Kind is 54. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 52. Alt-country singer Jason Ringenberg (Jason & the Scorchers) is 52. Actress Mariel Hemingway is 49. Actor Winsor Harmon is 47. Actor-producer Brian Robbins is 47. Actor Stephen Geoffreys is 46. Rock musician Charlie Colin is 44. Actor Nicholas Rowe is 44. Actor Mark Ruffalo is 43. Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker is 43. Country musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band) is 40. Actor Josh Cooke is 31. Actor-singer Tyler Hilton is 27. Actress Scarlett Johansson is 26. Actor Jamie Campbell Bower is 22. Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 21.
► In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach, better known as “Blackbeard,’’ was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
► In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at 48.
► In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.
► In 1967, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
► In 1975, Juan Carlos was proclaimed king of Spain.
► In 1980, actress Mae West died in Hollywood at 87, and former speaker of the House John W. McCormack died in Dedham at 88.
► In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win reelection of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced her resignation.
► In 2005, Jose Padilla, a US citizen in Navy custody, was charged with supporting terrorism, but the indictment did not mention the alleged “dirty bomb’’ plot that had prompted his three-year detention. (Padilla was later convicted along with two other defendants.)
