Today in History - History - November 22nd

1903Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged

1939Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment after Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant

193619th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC

1675English king Charles II adjourns parliament

1961Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

1943FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

1964Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational

200532nd American Music Award: Gwen Stefani, Will Smith & Kelly Clarkson win

1957Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY

2008Patrick Roy's #33 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens

1890Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69), (d. 1970)

1921Rodney Dangerfield, [John Cohen], Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack)

1967Boris Becker, Leimen Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)

1984Scarlett Johansson, New York City, New York, American actress (The Prestige)

1958Jamie Lee Curtis, Los Angeles California, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween)

1869Andre Gide, Paris, France, writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)

1965Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes

1998"Titanic" actress Kate Winslet (23) weds assistant film director Jim Threapleton (25) at All Saints Church in Reading, England

1963C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), dies at 64

1963Aldous Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69

1997Michael Hutchence, Australian rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37

1980Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87

1959Molla Mallory, eight-time U.S. Open tennis champion, dies at 75

1718Blackbeard, notorious English pirate, dies in battle at 38

1993Bill Bixby, US actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59

1995Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), dies at 95