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What happened in history on this day: November 22?
On November 22 in ...
- 365 - Felix II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 498 - Saint Symmachus begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1497 - Vasco da Gama sails round the Cape of Good Hope, en route from Europe to India.
- 1511 - Birth of Erasmus Reinhold Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table).
- 1710 - Birth of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach composer, son of JS Bach (Sinfonias 64).
- 1718 - Edward "Blackbeard" Teach English pirate, dies off Virginia coast.
- 1819 - Birth of George Eliot in England; novelist (Silas Marner).
- 1835 - Birth of Frank C Armstrong; US Brigadier General (Cavalry Commander under Forrest).
- 1842 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state, USA, erupts.
- 1854 - Birth of G.F.C. Smillie in New York City, New York, USA; bank note engraver.
- 1856 - Birth of Heber J Grant in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 7th President of Mormon church.
- 1857 - Birth of George Gissing; English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life).
- 1868 - Birth of John Nance Garner; American politician, 32nd Vice President (Democrat, 1933-41).
- 1869 - Birth of Andre Gide in France; novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures - Nobel Prize 1947).
- 1871 - Oscar J Dunn (Lieutenant Governor-Louisiana), dies suddenly, possibly was poisoned.
- 1890 - Birth of Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle in Lille, France; head of Free French movement, president of French provisional government (1945-46), President of France (1958-69).
- 1890 - In England, a proclamation demonetizes all gold coins issued before the reign of Queen Victoria.
- 1893 - In Zabrodii, Russia, a building is struck by a meteorite.
- 1896 - George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies.
- 1898 - Birth of Wiley Post in Grand Plain, Texas, USA; aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska).
- 1899 - Birth of Hoagy Carmichael in Bloomington, Indiana, USA; actor/songwriter (Stardust).
- 1901 - Birth of Joaquin Rodrigo Sagunto in Valencia, Spain; composer (Juglares).
- 1902 - Birth of Emanuel Feuermann in Kolomea, Galicia; cellist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
- 1904 - Birth of Roland Winters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers).
- 1905 - Birth of James Burnham; philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism).
- 1906 - Birth of Lee Patrick in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Henrietta - Topper, The Maltese Falcon).
- 1906 - International Telecommunications Union Conference adopts "SOS" as new call for help.
- 1910 - A group of men meet in secret at Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA, to write legislation to revise US banking system to produce a central bank under their control. The men are US Senator Nelson Aldrich, his secretary Arthur B. Shelton, assistant secretary to Treasury and special assistant to National Monetary Commission A. Piatt Andrew, president of National City Bank of New York Frank Vanderlip, senior partnet at J.P. Morgan Company Henry P. Davidson, president of First National Bank of New York Charles D. Norton, lieutenant of J.P. Morgan Benjamin Strong, partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company Paul Warburg.
- 1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs.
- 1910 - Birth of Mary Jackson in Milford, Michigan, USA; actress (Emily - The Waltons).
- 1913 - Birth of Benjamin Britten in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England; composer (Beggar's Opera).
- 1914 - In Batavia, New York, falling meteorites damage a farm.
- 1914 - British and Indian troops occupy Basra (Iraq).
- 1917 - National Hockey League (NHL) is founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, TorontArenas, Ottawa Senators, and Quebec Bulldogs.
- 1917 - National Hockey Association disbands.
- 1918 - Birth of Claiborne Pell; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Rhode Island).
- 1921 - Great Britain and Afghanistan sign a peace treaty, in which Britain recognizes the independence of Afghanistan.
- 1921 - Birth of Rodney Dangerfield in Babylon, New York, USA; comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School).
- 1922 - Birth of Fikret Dzhamil Amirov in Kirovabad, Russia; Azerbaijani composer (Shur).
- 1923 - US President Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death.
- 1924 - Birth of Geraldine Page in Kirksville, Missouri, USA; actress (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful).
- 1924 - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan.
- 1925 - Birth of Gunther Schuller in New York City, New York, USA; hornist/composer (Visitation).
- 1928 - Bolero by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris, France.
- 1928 - Birth of Juno Stover-Irwin; American diver (Olympic-silver-1956).
- 1928 - Birth of Pat Smythe in England; equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956).
- 1930 - First US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0).
- 1930 - Birth of Owen K Garriott in Enid, Oklahoma, USA; astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9).
- 1932 - Birth of Robert Vaughn in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Napoleon Solo - Man from UNCLE, I Spy).
- 1935 - Birth of Ludmila Belousova in Protopopov, USSR; pairs skater (Olympics-gold-1964, 1968).
- 1935 - Birth of Michael Callan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Peter - Occasional Wife).
- 1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
- 1939 - Birth of Allen Garfield in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II).
- 1940 - Birth of Terry Gilliam in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; comedy writer-animator (Monty Python's Flying Circus).
- 1941 - Birth of Tom Conti in Scotland; actor (Reuben, Reuben).
- 1942 - Birth of Guion S Bluford Junior in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 8, STS 61A, STS 39).
- 1943 - Birth of Billie Jean King in Long Beach, California, USA; tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975).
- 1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American President Franklin Roosevelt, and Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo, Egypt, over five days. They agree on military strategy against Japan.
- 1945 - Jim Benton, Cleveland Rams' end, gains 303 yards (NFL record).
- 1950 - 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, New York, USA.
- 1950 - Birth of Greg Luzinski; baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).
- 1950 - Birth of Little Steven; rocker (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - "Born to Run").
- 1950 - Birth of Tina Weymouth; rocker (Talking Heads - "And She Was").
- 1950 - Lowest NBA score, Fort Wayne Pistons (19), Minneapolis Lakers (18).
- 1956 - (to December 8) The Games of the XVI Olympiad are held in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1957 - Birth of Sharon Bailey; rocker (Amazulu - "Excitable").
- 1957 - Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by one vote for baseball's Most Valuable Player.
- 1958 - Birth of Jamie Lee Curtis in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Anything But Love, Halloween).
- 1959 - Boston Patriots enter the AFL.
- 1959 - New York Titans (AFL) make first draft choice (George Izo, quarterback, Notre Dame).
- 1960 - Birth of Eg White; rocker (Brother Beyond - "Can You Keep a Secret").
- 1961 - Birth of Mariel Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, USA; actress (Manhattan, Personal Best).
- 1963 - Aldous Huxley, English novelist (Brave New World), dies.
- 1963 - Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in the United Kingdom.
- 1963 - C.S. Lewis, English novelist (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), dies.
- 1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the murders of Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president at 2:39 p.m.
- 1964 - Birth of Stephen Geoffreys in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actor (Faternity Vacation).
- 1966 - Birth of Brian Robbins in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Eric - Head of the Class).
- 1966 - Birth of Nicholas Rowe in London, England; actor (Young Sherlock Holmes).
- 1967 - BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by The Beatles.
- 1967 - Birth of Boris Becker in Leimen, Federal Republic of Germany; tennis player (Wimbledon men's singles 1985, 1986, 1989).
- 1967 - United Artists releases the film Clambake to theaters in the USA.
- 1967 - Silver hits record US$2.17 an ounce in New York.
- 1967 - United Nations Security Council passes resolution 242: Israel must give back occupied land.
- 1968 - The Beatles release "The Beatles" (White Album) in United Kingdom, their only double album.
- 1972 - The US loses its first B-52 bomber to hostile fire in Vietnam; the crew abandon the damaged aircraft over Thailand.
- 1972 - Pittsburgh Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest five goals (2 minutes 7 seconds).
- 1975 - Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain and head of parliamentary constitutional democracy.
- 1977 - Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins.
- 1979 - Birth of Scott Robinson, English singer (5ive).
- 1980 - Death of Mae West, American actress, at her Hollywood residence at age 87 (born 1893).
- 1980 - Death of Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (born 1901).
- 1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown, Louisiana, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused the ship to leak.
- 1980 - Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at age 77.
- 1981 - Death of Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1900).
- 1981 - Birth of Ben Adams; British singer (a1).
- 1981 - San Diego Chargers' Dan Fouts passes for six touchdowns versus Oakland Raiders (55-21).
- 1982 - Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at age 80.
- 1982 - Space shuttle Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base, Texas.
- 1983 - Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at age 58.
- 1986 - Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1986 - Wayne Gretzky, of Edmonton Oilers, became 13th NHL player to score 500 goals.
- 1986 - Death of Scatman Crothers, American actor (Louie - Chico and the Man), musician, at age 76 (born 1910).
- 1986 - Edith Webster suffers a real heart attack during a scripted death scene in a performance of The Drunkard and dies at age 60.
- 1987 - New England Patriots shutout Indianapolis Colts 24-0.
- 1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 1988 - ABC airs the 100th episode of TV show Who's the Boss?.
- 1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon.
- 1989 - Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired.
- 1989 - The Mirage hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first "megaresort" built in Las Vegas, at a cost of $640 million, providing 3400 hotel rooms. On opening night, Elmer Sherwin wins US$4.6 million on a Megabucks spin. About 200,000 people attend the opening.
- 1989 - Kirby Pucket signs record US$3 million per year (for three years) Minnesota Twins' contract.
- 1989 - US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit.
- 1989 - Universal Pictures releases the film Back to the Future Part II to theaters.
- 1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him.
- 1989 - Death of C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (born 1910).
- 1990 - US President George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving.
- 1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister.
- 1991 - Paramount releases the film The Addams Family to theaters.
- 1992 - Death of Sterling Holloway of cardiac arrest at age 87; actor (Rin Tin Tin, Willy, The Life of Riley, The Baileys of Balboa, Adventures of Superman, Gilligan's Island, That Girl, F-Troop), voice of Winnie the Pooh in TV and film.
- 1994 - Sega introduces the Saturn video game system in Japan. It features two 28.6 MHz 32-bit Hitachi SH7064 RISC processors, two video display processors, Hitachi SH7034 processor controlling the double-speed CD-ROM drive, Tamaha FH1 digital signal processor, Motorola 68EC000 sound processor, QSound surround sound, 2 MB main memory, 1.5 MB video memory, 24-bit color in 640x224 resolution, memory cartridge slot, expansion slot. Price is 44800 yen (about US$450).
- 1995 - Colin McRae becomes the first ever Scottish world rally champion.
- 1995 - Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing ten women and girls, including her own daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff.
- 1995 - In Egypt, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. At least eight people killed and 30 injured in the epicentral region. Felt from Sudan to Lebanon.
- 1995 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Walt Disney Pictures - Pixar computer animated feature film Toy Story to theaters in the USA. This is the first feature film completely animated by computers. The film was created using 800,000 hours of computing time on 300 Sun Microsystems microprocessors.
- 1997 - Death of Michael Hutchence at age 37 found hanged in a Sydney hotel room; Australian singer (INXS) (born 1960).
- 1999 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the National Hockey League.
- 2000 - Death of Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (born 1907).
- 2001 - Pope John Paul II sends the first papal e-mail from a laptop computer in his office.
- 2002 - MGM releases the film Die Another Day to theaters.
- 2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the Miss World contestants.
- 2003 - England wins the 2003 Rugby World Cup, defeating Australia 20-17 after extra time.
- 2004 - The recently relocated Washington National League baseball franchise announces its new name, the Washington Nationals.
- 2005 - Ted Koppel steps down as host of TV show Nightline after 25 years with the program.
- 2005 - Microsoft launches the Xbox 360 video game system in North America. The system features IBM PowerPC with three cores, 3.2 GHz each with simultaneous multi-threading, 500 MHz ATI graphics with 10 MB cache, and 512 MB RAM. The Xbox 360 Core System costs US$299.99. The full Xbox 360 costs US$399.99, and includes 20 GB hard drive.
- 2005 - Activision releases the Call of Duty 2 video game for the Xbox 360 in the USA.
- 2006 - The Christian Democratic Appeal wins a plurality of seats in The Netherlands.
- 2006 - A General Election is held for the House of Keys in the Isle of Man.
- 2006 - Ten people are trapped and killed in the Kolkata leather factory fire in India.
- 2007 - Vladimer Gurgenidze becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Georgia.
- 2008 - The Museum of Islamic Art opens in Qatar.
- 2008 - (to November 23) The APEC Peru 2008 Summit is held in Lima.
- 2008 - An earthquake measuring 6.7-6.8 strikes off the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
- 2008 - Ginza Coin Auction of Tokyo sells a British 1847 Victoria Gothic, Plain Edge gold crown pattern graded AU (one of two known) for 48.4 million yen (US$511,055), a record for a British milled coin. A British Proof 1937 Edward VIII sovereign sells for about US$313,602.
- 2008 - Death of Ibrahim Nasir, Maldivian President (born 1926).
- 2010 - A stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills 347.
- 2010 - 29 Chinese miners are rescued from a flooded pit in Sichuan province.
- 2013 - Lions Gate Films releases the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to theaters.
- 2017 - The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison.
- 2020 - The United States withdraws from the Treaty on Open Skies.
- 2020 - Death of Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, 7th President of Mauritania (born 1938).
- 2020 - Death of Carlo D'Este at age 84 in Cape Cod, Massachusettes, USA; historian, biographer, author, recipient of 2011 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
- 2022 - In Qatar, the Saudi Arabia Green Falcons team defeats the Argentina team 2-1 in World Cup soccer.
- 2022 - Death of Pablo Milanés at age 79; Cuban musician (Grammy award winner).
- 2023 - Death of Jean Knight at age 80 of natural causes in Tampa, Florida; singer ("Mr. Big Stuff" song (1971)).
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