Notable Historical Events on November 22nd
November 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
498 |
St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II |
845 |
845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. |
1220 |
Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III |
1346 |
Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements |
1492 |
Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbus's fleet |
1497 |
Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India |
1542 |
Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America |
1573 |
The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded. |
1574 |
Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. |
1675 |
English king Charles II adjourns parliament |
1683 |
Purcell's "Welcome to All the Pleasures" premieres in London |
1699 |
Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden |
1707 |
Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland |
1714 |
King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden |
1794 |
Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards |
1809 |
Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen |
1830 |
Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1831 |
Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris) |
1842 |
Mount St Helens in Washington erupts |
1851 |
Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris) |
1861 |
Battle of Ft McRee, FL |
1864 |
American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties |
1864 |
Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death |
1872 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo" premieres in Prague |
1884 |
T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper |
1886 |
Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia |
1898 |
Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome) |
1899 |
-23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) |
1900 |
Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France |
1903 |
Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged |
1905 |
British, Italian, Russian, French & Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos |
1906 |
International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help |
1906 |
Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership |
1908 |
1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0 |
1910 |
Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs |
1914 |
Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing |
1914 |
Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia |
1917 |
NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands |
1918 |
Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns |
1918 |
King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels |
1918 |
Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland |
1918 |
Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) |
1919 |
15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam |
1919 |
Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week |
1922 |
British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader |
1922 |
Library Ave in Bronx named |
1922 |
Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government |
1923 |
Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death |
1924 |
Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan |
1926 |
Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth |
1927 |
1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc) |
1927 |
George Gershwin's "Funny Face" premieres in NYC |
1927 |
Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC |
1928 |
"Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris) |
1929 |
Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG |
1930 |
1st Irish Sweepstake run |
1930 |
1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0) |
1930 |
Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit |
1931 |
Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" premieres |
1932 |
Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered |
1934 |
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show |
1935 |
China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight |
1936 |
19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC |
1939 |
Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment after Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant |
1940 |
500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis |
1941 |
British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis |
1941 |
NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya |
1942 |
Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov |
1942 |
Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to last man |
1943 |
FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan |
1943 |
France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government |
1943 |
RAF begins air bombing of Berlin |
1943 |
US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island |
1944 |
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen |
1945 |
"Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances |
1945 |
Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record) |
1950 |
7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18 |
1950 |
79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY |
1952 |
As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year |
1954 |
Humane Society forms |
1955 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1955 |
RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss |
1956 |
16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne |
1956 |
Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
1957 |
Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP |
1957 |
Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY |
1957 |
Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry" |
1959 |
AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame |
1959 |
Boston Patriots enters AFL |
1960 |
French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
1961 |
Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues |
1961 |
St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws |
1961 |
Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star |
1963 |
The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK |
1963 |
Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy |
1963 |
American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
1964 |
WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs |
1965 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1966 |
32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB) |
1967 |
BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles |
1967 |
Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York |
1967 |
UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura) |
1968 |
Beatles release "Beatles" (White Album), their only double album |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced a package of reform measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority, in response to protest movement |
1969 |
Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University |
1971 |
"Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances |
1971 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh |
1972 |
Belgium government of Eyskens resigns |
1972 |
Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak |
1972 |
Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07) |
1972 |
US ends 22 year travel ban to China |
1973 |
The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded. |
1974 |
Lake Buena Vista Club opens |
1974 |
Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore |
1974 |
UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty |
1975 |
Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain |
1975 |
Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland |
1976 |
Algeria Constitution goes into effect |
1976 |
Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewhite debuts |
1977 |
Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins |
1977 |
First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet. |
1980 |
Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak |
1981 |
"Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1981 |
69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23 |
1981 |
Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times |
1981 |
SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21) |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas |
1984 |
Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution |
1985 |
Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C |
1985 |
Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens |
1985 |
PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election |
1986 |
Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title |
1986 |
Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals |
1987 |
Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0 |
1987 |
Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom. |
1989 |
Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World |
1989 |
Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon |
1989 |
Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract |
1989 |
US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit |
1989 |
Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired |
1990 |
George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia |
1990 |
Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister |
1990 |
Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia |
1991 |
NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension |
1991 |
"Phool Aur Kaante", the film debut of famous Indian actor Ajay Devgan, is released |
1992 |
Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec) |
1992 |
Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women |
1993 |
"Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf |
1995 |
Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women |
1995 |
Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. |
1995 |
OPEC states that it will roll over its current oil production quota of 25.42 million barrels per day |
1996 |
OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true" |
1998 |
86th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 26-24 |
2002 |
In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest. |
2003 |
In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation. |
2004 |
The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. |
2005 |
Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. |
2005 |
32nd American Music Award: Gwen Stefani, Will Smith & Kelly Clarkson win |
2008 |
YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live. |
2008 |
Patrick Roy's #33 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens |
2009 |
36th American Music Award: Taylor Swift & Michael Jackson win |
2009 |
President Hugo Chavez states that Venezuela is in recession as the economy contracted 4.5% in the third quarter |
2012 |
2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas |
2012 |
6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92 |
2013 |
Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship |
2016 |
At Least 6 Children Die in School Bus Crash in Chattanooga |
2016 |
Quake Off Fukushima, Japan, Triggers Tsunami Alerts |
2016 |
Pope Francis allows priests to forgive abortion |
2016 |
ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq, Report Says |
2017 |
Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa to return home after Mugabe resignation |
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