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

Today in history:

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.

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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.

In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.

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