Today in History: November 21, Las Vegas hotel fire claims 85 lives

Today is Thursday, Nov. 21, the 326th time of 2024. There are 40 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 21, 1980, 85 radical died, astir due to the fact that of fume inhalation, aft a occurrence broke retired astatine the MGM Grand Hotel successful Las Vegas, Nevada.

Also connected this date:

In 1920, connected “Bloody Sunday,” the Irish Republican Army killed 14 suspected British quality officers successful the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a shot match, sidesplitting 14 civilians.

In 1964, New York City’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, astatine the clip the longest suspension span successful the world, was opened to traffic.

In 1980, an estimated 83 cardinal TV viewers tuned successful to the CBS prime-time soap opera “Dallas” to find retired “who changeable J.R.” (The shooter turned retired to beryllium J.R. Ewing’s sister-in-law, Kristin Shepard.)

In 1985, U.S. Navy quality expert Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested and accused of spying for Israel. (Pollard aboriginal pleaded blameworthy to espionage and was sentenced to beingness successful prison, but was released successful 2015.)

In 1990, junk-bond financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded blameworthy to six felony counts, was sentenced by a national justice successful New York to 10 years successful prison. (Milken served two.)

In 1995, Balkan leaders gathering successful Dayton, Ohio, initialed a bid program to extremity 3 1/2 years of taste warring successful Bosnia-Herzegovina.

In 2017, Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, resigned; helium was facing impeachment proceedings and had been placed nether location apprehension by the military.

In 2022, NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon, whipping astir the acold broadside and buzzing the lunar aboveground connected its mode to a record-breaking orbit. It was the archetypal clip an American capsule visited the satellite since NASA’s Apollo programme 50 years ago.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Actor Marlo Thomas is 87.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 80.
• Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is 80.
• Actor Goldie Hawn is 79.
• Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., is 73.
• Journalist Tina Brown is 71.
• Actor Cherry Jones is 68.
• Gospel instrumentalist Steven Curtis Chapman is 62.
• Musician Björk is 59.
• Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman is 58.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. is 55.
• Football Hall of Famer-TV big Michael Strahan (STRAY’-han) is 53.
• Actor Jena Malone is 40.
• Actor-comedian Ronny Chieng is 39.
• Pop vocalist Carly Rae Jepsen is 39.