What happened on November 22? There are more than 281 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 22
November 22 is the 327th day of the year 2024. There are 39 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 47th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Athens, Georgia 30612 sunrise will occur at 07:11 AM and sunset will occur at 05:27 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 68 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 22
- 498After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
- 845The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
- 1307Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
- 1573The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
- 1574Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
- 1635Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
- 1718Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
- 1812War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
- 1837Canadian 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.
- 1858Denver, Colorado is founded.
- 1864American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
- 1869In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
- 1908The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
- 1928The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.
- 1935The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
- 1940World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
- 1942World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
- 1943Lebanon gains independence from France.
- 1943World War II: War in the Pacific – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
- 1954The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- 1963In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
- 1967UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
- 1969In American football, the University of Michigan upset Ohio State University, 24-12, in Bo Schembechler’s first season as Michigan’s head coach. The win set off the 10 Year War between Schembechler and Ohio State’s Woody Hayes. (See also Michigan-Ohio State rivalry).
- 1973The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
- 1974The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- 1975Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
- 1977British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- 1986Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
- 1987Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
- 1988In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 1989In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
- 1990British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
- 1995Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
- 1997In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
- 2004In Global governance, Decision o916-d1 adopted as mission statement: 'To create an accepted framework for all humankind, that is self-regulating and which enables every person to achieve their fullest potential in harmony with the world and its place in existence.'
- 2004The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- 2005Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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Who Were Born On November 22?
- 1458Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
- 1515Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland (d. 1560)
- 1564Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
- 1602Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
- 1635Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
- 1643Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
- 1698Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
- 1710Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
- 1721Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
- 1722Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
- 1767Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and politician (d. 1810)
- 1780Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
- 1787Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
- 1808Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
- 1814Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
- 1819George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
- 1849Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
- 1852Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
- 1856Heber J. Grant, American religious leader (d. 1945)
- 1861Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)
- 1868John Nance Garner, American politician (d. 1967)
- 1869André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
- 1873L.S. Amery, British politician (d. 1955)
- 1877Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
- 1877Joan Gamper, Swiss businessman (d. 1930)
- 1878Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1918)
- 1884Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer (d. 1953)
- 1890Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman (d. 1970)
- 1893Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
- 1897Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
- 1898Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
- 1899Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1900Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
- 1901Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
- 1902Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
- 1902Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-born American cellist (d. 1942)
- 1902Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
- 1902Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
- 1904Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
- 1909Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
- 1910Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1913Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
- 1913Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (d. 2006)
- 1914Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
- 1917Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1918Claiborne Pell, American politician (d. 2009)
- 1919Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
- 1920Anne Crawford, British film actress (d. 1956)
- 1921Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
- 1921Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
- 1923Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
- 1923Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
- 1924Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1925Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
- 1926Arthur Jones, American inventor (d. 2007)
- 1926Gene Berce, American basketball player
- 1926Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1928Timothy Beaumont, British noble (d. 2008)
- 1929Staughton Lynd, American historian
- 1932Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
- 1932Robert Vaughn, American actor
- 1934Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
- 1936Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
- 1936Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Bahraini politician
- 1938Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
- 1938John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (d. 2010)
- 1939Allen Garfield, American actor
- 1939Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
- 1939Tom West, American computer engineer and industry executive
- 1940Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
- 1940Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
- 1941Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1941Jesse Colin Young, American musician
- 1941Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
- 1941Tom Conti, British actor
- 1942Guion Bluford, American astronaut
- 1943Billie Jean King, American tennis player
- 1943Peter Adair, American filmmaker
- 1943Roger L. Simon, American novelist and screenwriter
- 1943Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945Tom Freston, American television executive
- 1946Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
- 1947Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
- 1947Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
- 1947Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
- 1948Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
- 1948Stewart Graeme Guthrie, New Zealand Police officer (d. 1990)
- 1949David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
- 1949Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States
- 1950Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
- 1950Jim Jefferies, Scottish football manager
- 1950Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
- 1950Steven Van Zandt, American musician
- 1950Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
- 1951Kent Nagano, American conductor
- 1953Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
- 1955James Edwards, American basketball player
- 1956Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
- 1956Richard Kind, American actor
- 1957Donny Deutsch, American television personality and advertising executive
- 1958Bruce Payne, English actor
- 1958Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter
- 1958Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- 1958Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
- 1959Eddie Frierson, American voice actor and stage actor
- 1959Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
- 1959Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
- 1959Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian voice actress
- 1960Léos Carax, French film director
- 1961Mariel Hemingway, American actress
- 1961Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
- 1961Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
- 1962Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and TV personality
- 1962Sumi Jo, South Korean operatic soprano
- 1962Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
- 1963Brian Robbins, American actor and director
- 1963Corinne Russell, British actress
- 1963Hugh Millen, American football player
- 1963Kennedy Pola, Samoan-born American pro football coach
- 1963Scoop Jackson, American sportswriter
- 1963Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
- 1963Winsor Harmon, American actor
- 1964Robbie Slater, Australian footballer
- 1965Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
- 1965Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
- 1966Ed Ferrara, American pro wrestler and commentator
- 1966Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor
- 1966Richard Stanley, South African film director
- 1967Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
- 1967Boris Becker, German tennis player
- 1967Mark Ruffalo, American actor
- 1967Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
- 1968Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
- 1969Byron Houston, American former professional basketball player and convicted sex offender
- 1969Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
- 1970Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketeer
- 1970Stel Pavlou, British novelist
- 1972Jay Payton, American baseball player
- 1972Russell Hoult, English football goalkeeper
- 1973Chad Trujillo, American astronomer
- 1974David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
- 1974Joe Nathan, American baseball player
- 1975Aiko, Japanese singer
- 1976Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
- 1976Regina Halmich, German female boxer
- 1976Torsten Frings, German footballer
- 1976Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
- 1977Annika Norlin, Swedish pop singer
- 1977Michael Preston, English footballer
- 1978Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- 1979Chris Doran, Irish singer
- 1980Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
- 1980Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
- 1981Ben Adams, English singer
- 1981Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
- 1981Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
- 1982Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
- 1982Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
- 1982Isild Le Besco, French actress
- 1982Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
- 1983Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
- 1983Peter Ramage, English footballer
- 1983Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
- 1984Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- 1985Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
- 1985Austin Brown, American singer
- 1986Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
- 1987Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer of Moroccan descent
- 1988Austin Romine, American baseball player
- 1988Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor
- 1988Jyoti Guptara, British/Swiss novelist
- 1988Suresh Guptara, Indian novelist
- 1989Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
- 1991Diana Danielle, American/Malaysian actress
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Who Died On November 22?
- 365Felix II, antipope
- 950King Lothair II of Italy
- 1286King Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
- 1318Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich of Russia (b. 1271)
- 1594Martin Frobisher, English explorer
- 1617Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
- 1694John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
- 1697Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
- 1710Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
- 1718Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
- 1758Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (db. 1680)
- 1774Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
- 1783John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
- 1794John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1813Johann Christian Reil, German physician (b. 1759)
- 1875Henry Wilson, American politician (b. 1812)
- 1886William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
- 1893James Calder, American academic and educator (b. 1826)
- 1900Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
- 1916Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
- 1917Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
- 1919Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
- 1920Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
- 1926Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
- 1932William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
- 1941Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (b. 1915)
- 1943Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
- 1944Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
- 1946Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
- 1953Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
- 1954Roderick McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1882)
- 1955Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1956Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born American choreographer (b. 1882)
- 1963Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
- 1963C. S. Lewis, Northern Irish author (b. 1898)
- 1963J. D. Tippit, American law enforcement officer (b. 1924)
- 1963John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
- 1963Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian physician (b. 1905)
- 1967Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
- 1980Jules Léger, Canadian politician (b. 1913)
- 1980Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
- 1980Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
- 1981Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
- 1986Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1986William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
- 1988Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
- 1988Paul Vario, American organizied crime figure (b. 1914)
- 1989C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
- 1989Rene Moawad, Lebanonese politician (b. 1925)
- 1992Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1993Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
- 1994Forrest White, American musical instruments industry figure (b. 1920)
- 1996María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
- 1996Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1996Terence Donovan, British photographer and film director (b. 1936)
- 1997Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)
- 1998Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
- 2000Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2000Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
- 2001Mary Kay Ash, American entrepreneur (b. 1915)
- 2001Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and recording industry executive (b. 1918)
- 2004Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
- 2005Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
- 2006Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
- 2007Maurice Béjart, French-born Swiss choreographer (b. 1929)
- 2007Verity Lambert, British television producer (b. 1935)
- 2008MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
- 2010Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
- 2010Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)
- 2011Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)
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