Today is Saturday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2025. There are 39 days left in the year.

On Nov. 22, 2017, Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the Srebrenica massacre of 1995 — the worst massacre in Europe since World War II — was convicted of genocide and other crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and sentenced to life behind bars.

In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — was killed during a battle with British naval forces near Ocracoke Island in North Carolina.

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In 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, wa

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