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
- 845 –The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
- 1574 –Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1974 –The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- 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.
- 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.'
- 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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