Historical Events
Sports History
31st NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
- Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
- CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Edmonton Eskimos 4th consecutive Championship; beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23; final Grey Cup game for Rough Riders, fold in 1996
- Jimmy Horowitz and Leo Rost's rock musical "Marlowe", a fictionalized account of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, closes at Rialto Theater, NYC, after 48 performances
- SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Famous Birthdays
- Ben Adams, British pop singer-songwriter (A1), stage actor, and producer, born in Ascot, England
- Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
- Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
- Shangela [D.J. Pierce], American drag queen, comedian, actor, dancer, and TV personality (RuPaul's Drag Race), born in Paris, Texas
- Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress (Autumn in My Heart; Descendants of the Sun), born in Daegu, South Korea
Famous Deaths
- Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante), dies at 74
- Hans Krebs, German-British doctor and research biochemist specializing in metabolic reactions (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953), dies at 81 [1]
- Jack Fingleton, Australian cricket batsman (18 Tests, 1,189 runs @ 42.46, 5 x 100s), dies at 73
About November 22, 1981
Day of the Week: Sunday
How Long Ago? 41 years, 10 months and 1 day
Leap Year: No
Generation: Millennial
Chinese Zodiac: Rooster
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Music Charts
#1 Song: Physical - Olivia Newton-John
#1 Song: Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
