About November 22
November 22, 2021 is the 326th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 71 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.
- 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.
- 1869 –In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
- 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.
- 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)
- 1954 –The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
- 1973 –The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
- 1975 –Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
- 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.
- 2004 –The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- 2005 –Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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