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November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining.
[edit] Events
- 498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
- 1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
- 1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invaded Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
- 1880 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell made her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
- 1917 - In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association broke up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League).
- 1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamun.
- 1935 - The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
- 1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advanced into Albanian soil and liberated Korytsa.
- 1940 - Philip Murray succeeds founder John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich Paulus sent Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army was surrounded.
- 1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
- 1943 - Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gained independence from France.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
- 1963 - The Beatles released album With the Beatles ; the album covered that was to be seen in the USA as Meet the Beatles with famous half-shadow shots by Robert Freeman.
- 1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
- 1968 - The Beatles release the double album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.
- 1969 - In one of the greatest upsets in NCAA football history, the Michigan Wolverines beat top-ranked Ohio State by a score of 24-12.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
- 1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- 1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
- 1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- 1986 - Boxing: Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick in the second round, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years and 4 months.
- 1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
- 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1999 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the NHL.
- 2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
- 2002 - In Coos Bay, OR, three firefighters died while fighting a fire in an auto parts store.
- 2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
- 2003 - The Heritage Classic, the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the NHL, is played in Edmonton, Alberta
- 2003 - England defeat Australia to win England's first Rugby World Cup.
- 2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- 2005 - Ted Koppel retires after hosting Nightline for over 26 years.
- 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
- 2005 - Xbox 360 is released, marking the beginning of the 7th Generation of video game consoles.
- 2006 - At least ten people are killed in a burning leather factory in India.
[edit] Births
- 1428 - Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, English politician (d. 1471)
- 1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
- 1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
- 1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
- 1602 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
- 1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
- 1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
- 1698 - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
- 1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
- 1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
- 1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
- 1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
- 1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
- 1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
- 1814 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
- 1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
- 1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
- 1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
- 1856 - Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
- 1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
- 1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
- 1877 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
- 1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
- 1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970)
- 1893 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
- 1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
- 1898 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
- 1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
- 1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
- 1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
- 1902 - Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
- 1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
- 1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
- 1914 - Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
- 1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1918 - Claiborne Pell, American politician
- 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
- 1923 - Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
- 1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
- 1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1925 - Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
- 1926 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1929 - Aleksandar Popović, Serbian theatre writer (d. 1996)
- 1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
- 1936 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
- 1938 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese American criminologist
- 1939 - Tom West, American astrophysicist
- 1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
- 1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
- 1941 - Tom Conti, British actor
- 1941 - Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician
- 1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player
- 1943 - Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945 - Tom Freston, American television executive
- 1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
- 1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
- 1947 - Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
- 1949 - Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
- 1950 - Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- 1950 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
- 1950 - Steven Van Zandt, American musician
- 1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
- 1951 - Kent Nagano, American conductor
- 1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
- 1956 - Richard Kind, American actor
- 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- 1958 - Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
- 1958 - Horse McDonald, Scottish singer/songwriter
- 1960 - Bruce Payne, English actor
- 1960 - Léos Carax, French film director
- 1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress
- 1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
- 1961 - Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
- 1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
- 1963 - Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
- 1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
- 1966 - Richard Stanley, South African film director
- 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
- 1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
- 1967 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch speed skater
- 1968 - Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
- 1970 - Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricket player
- 1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist
- 1972 - Jay Payton, American baseball player
- 1974 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
- 1975 - Aiko, Japanese singer
- 1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
- 1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer
- 1976 - Regina Halmich, German female boxer
- 1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer
- 1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- 1979 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
- 1980 - Shawn Fanning, American creator of Napster
- 1980 - Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
- 1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
- 1981 - Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
- 1982 - Aiyegbeni Yakubu, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 - Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer ( Twins)
- 1983 - Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
- 1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
- 1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- 1984 - Kate Ground, Canadian adult internet model
- 1986 - David Pasqualini, French pianist
- 1986 - Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
[edit] Deaths
- 950 - King Lothair II of Italy
- 1286 - Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
- 1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
- 1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer
- 1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
- 1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
- 1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect
- 1710 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
- 1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate
- 1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
- 1774 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
- 1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
- 1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1875 - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
- 1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
- 1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
- 1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
- 1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
- 1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
- 1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
- 1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
- 1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
- 1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
- 1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
- 1954 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
- 1955 - Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
- 1963 - Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
- 1963 - C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
- 1963 - Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
- 1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
- 1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
- 1980 - Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
- 1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
- 1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
- 1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
- 1989 - Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
- 1989 - C.C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
- 1992 - Sterling Holloway, American voice actor (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
- 1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1996 - María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
- 1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (b. 1960)
- 1998 - Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
- 2000 - Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
- 2001 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
- 2005 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
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