On this day: 22 November
Events, births and deaths on 22 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · M. Balamuralikrishna
100 years ago1926
- Births · Lew Burdette
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 950 · Deaths · Lothair II of Italy
Events · 21
- 845Battle of Ballon — 845 battle in France
- 1797Geisel School of Medicine — American medical school
- 1858Denver — consolidated city-county and capital of the U.S. state of Colorado
- 1910Revolt of the Lash — 1910 naval incident that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1935
- 1943Lebanon — country in West Asia
- 1943Cairo Conference — summit meeting during World War II
- 1949PLA Dalian Naval Academy — military academy in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
- 19521952 Mount Gannett C-124 crash — 1952 aviation accident in Alaska, United States
- 19561956 Summer Olympics — Games of the XVI Olympiad, in Melbourne, Australia
- 1963assassination of John F. Kennedy — 1963 murder in Dallas, Texas, U.S
- 1963first inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson — 8th United States intra-term presidential inauguration
- 1968Japan Airlines Flight 2 — aviation accident
- 1987Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion — Chicago television hijacking incident
- 1993Qatar Airways — state-owned flag-carrier airline of Qatar
- 19941994 St. Louis Airport collision — 1994 runway collision in Missouri, United States
- 20032003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident — attempted shootdown of DHL cargo airliner near Baghdad International Airport
- 2004Orange Revolution — series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005
- 2010Phnom Penh stampede — 2010 stampede in Phnom Penh
- 2014shooting of Tamir Rice — 2014 police killing of a black boy in Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- 20222022 Chesapeake shooting — mass shooting in Chesapeake, Virginia
Births · 60
- 1515(Julian date)Mary of Lorraine — Scottish Queen consort; (1515-1560)
- 1602Elisabeth of France — Queen consort of Spain (1602-1644)
- 1710Wilhelm Friedemann Bach — German composer, organist, harpsichordist (1710-1784)
- 1744Abigail Adams — First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
- 1787Rasmus Rask — Danish linguist
- 1808Thomas Cook — English founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son (1808–1892)
- 1819George Eliot — English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
- 1852Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant — French politician (1852-1924)
- 1857George Gissing — English novelist (1857–1903)
- 1861Ranavalona III — last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar (1861-1917)
- 1868John Nance Garner — Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941
- 1869André Gide — French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
- 1877Endre Ady — Hungarian poet (1877–1919)
- 1877Joan Gamper — Swiss football pioneer, player and club president (1877-1930)
- 1881Enver Pasha — Ottoman politician and general (1881–1922)
- 1890Charles de Gaulle — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
- 1891Edward Bernays — American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)
- 1899Hoagy Carmichael — American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader (1899–1981)
- 1901Joaquín Rodrigo — Spanish composer, best known for his Concierto de Aranjuez (1901–1999)
- 1902Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque — French general (1902–1947)
- 1904Louis Néel — French physicist (1904-2000)
- 1913Benjamin Britten — English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976.
- 1917Andrew Huxley — English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
- 1921Rodney Dangerfield — American stand-up comedian (1921–2004)
- 1924Geraldine Page — American actress (1924–1987)
Deaths · 60
- 365Felix II — archdeacon of Rome, antipope or pope in 355 (died 365)
- 950(Julian date)Lothair II of Italy — King of Italy from 947 to 950
- 1249(Julian date)As-Salih Najm al-din Ayyub — Sultan of Egypt (1205-1249)
- 1286(Julian date)Eric V of Denmark — King of Denmark
- 1617Ahmed I — 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)
- 1697Libéral Bruant — French architect (1636–1697)
- 1718Blackbeard — English pirate
- 1774Robert Clive — British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)
- 1813Johann Christian Reil — German physician
- 1850Lin Tse-hsu — Chinese scholar and politician (1785-1850)
- 1875Henry Wilson — vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875
- 1886Mary Boykin Chesnut — American writer (1823-1886)
- 1896George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. — American engineer (1859-1896)
- 1900Arthur Sullivan — English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo (1842-1900)
- 1902Walter Reed — American physician and medical researcher (1851–1902)
- 1907Asaph Hall — American astronomer (1829–1907)
- 1913Tokugawa Yoshinobu — 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1837–1913)
- 1916Jack London — American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
- 1919Francisco Pascasio Moreno — Argentinian explorer and naturalist (1852–1919)
- 1941Werner Mölders — German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913-1941)
- 1943Lorenz Hart — American lyricist (1895–1943)
- 1944Arthur Eddington — British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
- 1946Otto Georg Thierack — German politician (1889-1946)
- 1954Andrey Vyshinsky — Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat (1883-1954)
- 1955Shemp Howard — American comedian and actor (1895–1955)
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