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This day in history: 22 November

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351 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 22 November.
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2022: A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Salvatore Lilli

Christian feast day: Cecilia

Christian feast day: November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pedro Esqueda Ramírez

Christian feast day: Philemon and Apphia

Christian feast day: Pragmatius of Autun

Good Spouses Day (いい夫婦の日) celebrates married couples in Japan.

Independence Day celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.

Events

2022A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.

2014While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.

2010During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.

2004The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

2003Baghdad 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.

1994A Trans World Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft collide on the runway at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Bridgeton, Missouri, killing two people and injuring eight.

1990British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership.

1989NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.

1987The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident takes place, in which a pirate broadcast interrupts television broadcasts in Chicago.

1975Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco two days earlier.

1971In 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.

1968Japan Air Lines Flight 2 accidentally ditches in San Francisco Bay while on approach to San Francisco International Airport. No one is injured.

1967UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.

1963Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.

1963U.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. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn

1955The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.

1952A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, Alaska, killing all 52 aboard.

1943Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.

1943World 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.

1942World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.

1940World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

1935The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

1921During The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922), 15 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day.

1908The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

1873The 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.

1869In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.

1855In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

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.

1718Royal 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 an

1635Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.

1574Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

1307Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

1220Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III.

1210The Castle of Termes falls to Simon de Montfort after a four-month siege during the Albigensian Crusade.

845The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

498After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

Born on this day

2002Brandon Miller, American basketball player

2002Owen Power, Canadian ice hockey player

2001Chenle, Chinese singer

2000Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress and singer

1999Dwight McNeil, English footballer

1999Trey McBride, American football player

1996Hailey Bieber, American model

1996JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player

1996Mackenzie Lintz, American actress

1996Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer, member of boy band Seventeen

1995Katherine McNamara, American actress

1994Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor

1994Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater

1994Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer

1994Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player

1992Carles Gil, Spanish footballer

1992Natalie Achonwa, Canadian basketball player

1992Vladislav Namestnikov, Russian ice hockey player

1991Gab Pangilinan, Filipino actress and singer

1991Tarik Black, American basketball player

1990Brock Osweiler, American football player

1990Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer and actor

1989Alden Ehrenreich, American actor

1989Candice Glover, American singer

1989Chris Smalling, English footballer

1989Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer

1988Austin Romine, American baseball player

1988Drew Pomeranz, American baseball player

1988Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor, singer, and model

1987Elias, American wrestler

1987Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer

1987Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer

1986Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter and convicted murderer

1985Adam Ottavino, American baseball player

1985Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer

1985Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer

1985James Roby, English rugby league player

1985Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player

1984Scarlett Johansson, American actress

1983Peter Ramage, English footballer

Died on this day

2024Serge Vohor, Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1955)

2022John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (born 1933)

2022Raşit Küçük, Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)

2020Otto Hutter, Austrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)

2017Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (born 1962)

2017George Avakian, American music producer (born 1919)

2017Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter (born 1958)

2016M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (born 1930)

2015Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)

2015Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, President of South Korea (born 1927)

2015Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1949)

2013Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (born 1931)

2013Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (born 1926)

2013Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (born 1935)

2012Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (born 1933)

2011Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (born 1938)

2011Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (born 1931)

2011Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano (born 1921)

2011Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author (born 1926)

2010Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (born 1914)

2010Jean Cione, American baseball player (born 1928)

2007Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)

2007Verity Lambert, English television producer (born 1935)

2006Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (born 1917)

2006Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (born 1942)

2005Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (born 1920)

2002Parley Baer, American actor (born 1914)

2002Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, Polish mercenary and journalist (born 1932)

2001Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (born 1918)

2001Norman Granz, American record producer, founded Verve Records (born 1918)

Quote of the day

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

Marcus Aurelius

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