November 22 - Events

Events

• 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.
• 1286 – The murder of King Eric V of Denmark, the last murder of a Danish monarch.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2003 – 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident, shortly after takeoff the left wing is hit by a surface-to-air missile and is forced to land.
• 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.