Today is Monday, Nov. 21, the 326th day of 2016. There are 40 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Joseph Campanella is 92. Actress Marlo Thomas is 79. Singer Dr. John is 76. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 72. Actress Goldie Hawn is 71. Director Andrew Davis is 70. Singer Livingston Taylor is 66. Actress Cherry Jones is 60. Singer Bjork is 51. Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman is 50. Baseball Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. is 47. Football player-turned-TV personality Michael Strahan is 45.

In 1864, a letter was signed by President Lincoln expressing condolences to Lydia Bixby, a widow in Boston whose five sons supposedly died while fighting in the Civil War. (As it turned out, only two of Mrs. Bixby’s sons had been killed in battle.)

In 1969, the Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.

In 1973, President Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

In 1974, bombs exploded at a pair of pubs in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people. (Six suspects were convicted of the attack, but the convictions of the so-called ‘‘Birmingham Six’’ were overturned in 1991.)

In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. An estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera ‘‘Dallas’’ to find out ‘‘who shot J.R.’’

In 2006, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, scion of Lebanon’s most prominent Christian family, was assassinated.