About November 22
November 22, 2020 is the 327th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 82 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 22
- 498 –After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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