On this day: November 21

2017: Singer-songwriter and actor David Cassidy dies of liver failure at the age of 67 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cassidy became a teen idol in the 1970s thanks to his role as Keith Partridge on the sitcom "The Partridge Family."

2010: Jimmie Johnson becomes the first driver ever to win five straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships after clinching the title with a second-place finish at the season-ending Ford 400 race in Homestead, Florida.

2004: The NBA suspends Ron Artest of the Indiana Pacers for the rest of the season following a Nov. 19 brawl among players and fans during a game in Auburn Hills, Michigan, between the Pacers and the home team Detroit Pistons. The suspension for Artest, who went into the stands after a fan during the incident, would end up lasting 86 games, the longest suspension for an on-court incident in NBA history.

2000: The Florida Supreme Court grants Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going, extending the deadline for amended returns from hand recounts in four Florida counties (Broward, Miami Dade, Palm Beach, and Volusia) to Nov. 26. The decision would later be vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court.

1995: The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement would be formally ratified in Paris, France, on Dec. 14, 1995. Here, Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnia and Herzegovina President Alija Izetbegovic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman initial the accord.

1995: The "Beatles Anthology 1" sets a first-day sales record, selling 450,000 units. It would also become the first Beatles album to officially enter the Billboard 200 album chart straight at No. 1 with 855,473 copies sold its first week.

1993: Actor and director Bill Bixby, best known for portraying The Hulk's alter ego Dr. David Banner on the TV series "The Incredible Hulk," dies of complications from prostate cancer at the age of 59 in Century City, California. He also starred in the TV sitcoms "My Favorite Martian" and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," the TV miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man," and movies such as "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "Clambake" during his career. Bixby, who first tried his hand at directing with episodes of "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," directed episodes of many TV series in the 1970s through 1990s, finishing his career by directing 30 episodes during the second and third seasons of the sitcom "Blossom."

1984: Actress Jena Malone, known for movies such as "Donnie Darko," "Saved!," "Pride & Prejudice," "The Ruins" and "Sucker Punch," is born in Sparks, Nevada.