TODAY IN HISTORY + CELEBRITIES BORN TODAY

DAVIDO - Davido was born on November 21, 1992 to Chief Deji and Vero Adeleke in Atlanta, Georgia. His father is a Nigerianbusiness magnate while his late mother was a university lecturer. He attended the British International School in Lagos. Davido studied Business Administration at Oakwood University prior to relocating to Nigeria. He graduated from Babcock University in Ogun State, earning a degree in music

MARK RUFFALO - Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967)is an American actor, director, humanitarian and producer. He has portrayed theMarvel Comics character Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk in The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Other notable films in which he has starred or co-starred are You Can Count on Me (2000), Collateral (2004), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005), Zodiac (2007), Shutter Island (2010), Now You See Me (2013), andBegin Again (2013). For his roles in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and Foxcatcher (2014), he received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He won a SAG Award and received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for The Normal Heart, which he also produced.

SCARLETT - Scarlett Johansson born November 22, 1984) is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in North (1994). Johansson subsequently starred in Manny & Lo in 1996, and garnered further acclaim and prominence with roles in The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Ghost World (2001). She shifted to adult roles with her performances inGirl with a Pearl Earring (2003) and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

CARLY - Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 21, 1985) is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Mission, British Columbia, and later based in Vancouver. In 2007, she placed third in Canadian Idol season five's competition. Jepsen independently released her debut album, Tug of War, in 2008. In 2011, she released the single "Call Me Maybe", which was followed in 2012 by her debut EP,Curiosity, and her second album, Kiss. "Call Me Maybe" reached number one in 18 countries during 2012 and was the year's best-selling single worldwide. Jepsen's third album, Emotion, was released in 2015 to general acclaim and was heavily influenced by songs from the 1980s. Its lead single "I Really Like You" reached the top five in the United Kingdom, the top ten in Japan and the top fifteen in Jepsen's native Canada.

JENA - Jena Malone born November 21, 1984) is an American actress and musician. She made her movie debut with the filmBastard Out of Carolina (1996) and has appeared in films including Ellen Foster (1997), Contact (1997), Stepmom (1998), Donnie Darko (2001), Saved! (2004), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Into the Wild (2007), The Ruins (2008), Sucker Punch (2011) and The Hunger Games film series (2013–15). Malone is also an experimental musician who has released music both under her own name and as The Shoe. Her next film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, is scheduled to be released on March 25, 2016.

JAMIE - Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author. She made her film debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). A big hit, the film established her as a notable actress in horror, and she subsequently starred in Halloween II (1981), The Fog (1980), Prom Night (1980), Terror Train (1980), and Roadgames (1981), gaining the status of "scream queen" to mainstream audiences. Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, including the cult comedy films Trading Places (1983), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and True Lies (1994), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in Musical or Comedy

TODAY IN HISTORY

November 21, 1960 – Mallam Nuhu Ribadu was born. In 2003, Ribadu became the first head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which was created to “prevent, investigate, prosecute and penalize economic and financial crimes.” Mallam Ribadu unsuccessfully contested the Nigerian 2011 presidential elections as the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) political party.

1991 - An Egyptian, Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations, bringing an end to Nigeria's former military leader, General Obasanjo's
hope for the job

1843 - A Briton, Thomas Hancock, patented vulcanised rubber. He had produced the first ever inflatable toy balloons in 1825

1994 - The Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal is sworn in by Justice Mohammed Bello

1964 - Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council

1964 - World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)

1916 – World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.

1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.

1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.