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

  • 845 –
    The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1908 –
    The Congress of Monastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
  • 1928 –
    The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1989 –
    In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
  • 1995 –
    Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
  • 2005 –
    Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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