November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events[link]

• 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
• 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
• 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.
• 1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
• 1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
• 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.
• 1718 – Off 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.
• 1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
• 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.
• 1858 – Denver, Colorado is founded.
• 1864 – American 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.
• 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
• 1908 – The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
• 1935 – The 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.
• 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is 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 meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
• 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• 1963 – In 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. Aldous Huxley dies several hours after the assassination.
• 1967 – UN 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.
• 1969 – In 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).
• 1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• 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 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
• 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
• 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 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
• 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
• 1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2004 – In 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.'
• 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Births[link]

• 1458 – Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
• 1515 – Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V 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)
• 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (d. 1760)
• 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
• 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
• 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
• 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
• 1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
• 1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and politician (d. 1810)
• 1780 – Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
• 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)
• 1861 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (d. 1917)
• 1868 – John Nance Garner, American politician (d. 1967)
• 1869 – André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
• 1870 – Howard Brockway, American composer (d. 1951)
• 1873 – L.S. Amery, British politician (d. 1955)
• 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
• 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss businessman (d. 1930)
• 1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1918)
• 1884 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman (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)
• 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, American humanitarian, co-founder of U.S. Committee for UNICEF (d. 1987)
• 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)
• 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-born American cellist (d. 1942)
• 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American politician (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Anne Crawford, British film actress (d. 1956)
• 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Eugene Stoner, Designer of the AR-15 Rifle (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
• 1923 – Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
• 1926 – Gene Berce, American basketball player
• 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Arthur Jones, American inventor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Timothy Beaumont, British noble (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American historian
• 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor
• 1932 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
• 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
• 1936 – Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Bahraini politician
• 1938 – Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
• 1938 – John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor
• 1939 – Tom West, American computer engineer and industry executive
• 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
• 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian
• 1940 – Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
• 1941 – Tom Conti, British actor
• 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American musician
• 1942 – Guion Bluford, American astronaut
• 1943 – Peter Adair, American filmmaker
• 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American novelist and screenwriter
• 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 – Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
• 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
• 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
• 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian football manager
• 1948 – Stewart Graeme Guthrie, New Zealand Police officer (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and 17th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1949 – David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
• 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
• 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish football manager
• 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
• 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American musician
• 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
• 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
• 1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
• 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
• 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
• 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
• 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American television personality and advertising executive
• 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
• 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
• 1958 – Bruce Payne, English actor
• 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter
• 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American voice actor and stage actor
• 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
• 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
• 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian voice actress
• 1960 – Léos Carax, French film director
• 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
• 1961 – Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
• 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
• 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
• 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean operatic soprano
• 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and TV personality
• 1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
• 1963 – Scoop Jackson, American sportswriter
• 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player
• 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-born American pro football coach
• 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor and director
• 1963 – Corinne Russell, British actress
• 1964 – Robbie Slater, Australian footballer
• 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer
• 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
• 1965 – Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
• 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American pro wrestler and commentator
• 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African film director
• 1966 – Michael Kenneth Williams, American actor
• 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
• 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
• 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
• 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
• 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player and convicted sex offender
• 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
• 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist
• 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player
• 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer
• 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer
• 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
• 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
• 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer
• 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
• 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
• 1976 – Regina Halmich, German female boxer
• 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
• 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish pop singer
• 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
• 1978 – Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
• 1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
• 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
• 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
• 1981 – Ben Adams, English singer
• 1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
• 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
• 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
• 1982 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
• 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
• 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress
• 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
• 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
• 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
• 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
• 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer
• 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 – James Roby, English rugby league footballer
• 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
• 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer of Moroccan descent
• 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor
• 1988 – Jyoti Guptara, British/Swiss novelist
• 1988 – Suresh Guptara, Indian novelist
• 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
• 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
• 1991 – Diana Danielle, American/Malaysian actress
• 1991 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo)

Deaths[link]

• 365 – Felix II, antipope
• 950 – King Lothair II of Italy
• 1286 – King Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
• 1318 – Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich of Russia (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 (b. 1635)
• 1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 – Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (db. 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)
• 1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician (b. 1759)
• 1875 – Henry Wilson, American politician (b. 1812)
• 1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1893 – James Calder, American academic and educator (b. 1826)
• 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)
• 1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
• 1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
• 1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Werner Mölders, German fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• 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, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born American choreographer (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian physician (b. 1905)
• 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
• 1963 – C. S. Lewis, Northern Irish author (b. 1898)
• 1963 – J. D. Tippit, American law enforcement officer (b. 1924)
• 1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian politician (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
• 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, American organizied crime figure (b. 1914)
• 1989 – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
• 1989 – Rene Moawad, Lebanonese politician (b. 1925)
• 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Forrest White, American musical instruments industry figure (b. 1920)
• 1996 – María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Terence Donovan, British photographer and film director (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (b. 1960)
• 1998 – Stu Ungar, 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 entrepreneur (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and recording industry executive (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-born Swiss choreographer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Verity Lambert, British television producer (b. 1935)
• 2008 – MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances[link]

International Music Day

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Cecilia
  • George (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia)
  • November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)
• Earliest day on which Holodomor Remembrance Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Saturday of November. (Ukraine)
• Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: November 22

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada