Historical Events on November 22, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on November 22nd This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2022 | A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves 7 workers dead, including the shooter, and 4 others injured. |
| 2015 | A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar kills at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing. |
| 2012 | Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths. |
| 2005 | Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. |
| 2004 | The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. |
| 2003 | Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land. |
| 2003 | England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament. |
| 2002 | In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest. |
| 1995 | Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. |
| 1995 | The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami. |
| 1990 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership. |
| 1989 | In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him. |
| 1988 | In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed. |
| 1977 | British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. |
| 1975 | Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco. |
| 1974 | The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. |
| 1971 | In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains. |
| 1967 | UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement. |
| 1963 | U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards. |
| 1963 | Five Indian generals are killed in a fatal helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.[18][19] |
| 1956 | The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1955 | The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk. |
| 1948 | Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign. |
| 1943 | World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. |
| 1943 | Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government. |
| 1942 | World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. |
| 1940 | World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa. |
| 1935 | The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. |
| 1908 | The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. |
| 1873 | The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives. |
| 1869 | In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched. |
| 1855 | In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. |
| 1837 | Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. |
| 1718 | Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself. |
| 1635 | Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. |
| 1574 | Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. |
| 1307 | Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. |
| 845 | The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. |
| 498 | After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. |
Famous People Born on November 22
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1744 | Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818) |
| 1986 | Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter |
| 1968 | Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor |
| 1856 | Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945) |
| 1982 | Yakubu, Nigerian footballer |
| 1940 | Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 2016) |
| 1979 | Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014) |
| 1978 | Colin Best, Australian rugby league player |
| 1912 | Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1993) |
| 1943 | Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster |
Famous People Deaths On November 22
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on November 22. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) |
| 1896 | George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859) |
| 1998 | Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953) |
| 1954 | Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882) |
| 2012 | Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909) |
| 1617 | Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (b. 1590) |
| 1758 | Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680) |
| 1948 | Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868) |
| 1694 | John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630) |
| 1538 | John Lambert, English Protestant martyr |
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