About November 22
November 22, 2025 is the 326th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 87 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 22
- 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.
- 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.
- 1858 –Denver, Colorado is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1954 –The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- 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.
- 1973 –The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
- 1974 –The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- 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.
- 1988 –In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 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.'
- 2005 –Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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