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1286Nov 22Erik V Klipping (b.1249), king of Denmark, was murdered.
1493Nov 22Christopher Columbus arrived at Hispaniola on his 2nd voyage.
1497Nov 22Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
1542Nov 22New laws were passed in Spain giving protection against the enslavement of Indians in America.
1594Nov 22Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral and explorer, died.
1675Nov 22English king Charles II adjourned parliament.
1683Nov 22Purcell’s “Welcome to All the Pleasures,” premiered in London.
1757Nov 22Austrians defeated Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War.
1794Nov 22Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, prohibited circumcision and the wearing of beards.
1799Nov 22Baroness van Dorth, organist, was executed.
1859Nov 22Ludwig “Louis” Spohr (75), German violinist and composer (Faust), died.
1864Nov 22Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ended after 650 casualties.
1898Nov 22Pietro Mascagni’s opera “Iris” premiered (Rome).
1902Nov 22Friedrich A. Krupp, cannon manufacturer, committed suicide.
1906Nov 22The “S-O-S” (SOS) distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1909Nov 22The Wright brothers formed a corporation for the commercial manufacture of airplanes. Cornelius Vanderbilt and other financiers backed them with one million dollars.
1915Nov 22The Anglo-Indian army, led by British General Sir Charles Townshend, attacked a larger Turkish force under General Nur-ud-Din at Ctesiphon, Iraq, but was repulsed.
1927Nov 22George Gershwin’s “Funny Face,” premiered in NYC.
1928Nov 22British King George was confined to bed with congested lung; the queen was to take over duties.
1931Nov 22Ferde Grofe’s “Grand Canyon Suite,” premiered.
1936Nov 221,200 were killed in a battle between Japanese and Mongolians in China.
1941Nov 22Tom Conti, actor (Reuben Reuben, American Dreamer), was born in Paisley, Scotland.
1948Nov 22Ho Chi Minh’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam requested admittance to the UN.
1950Nov 22In New York 78 died in a train crash in Richmond Hills (later Kew Gardens), NY.
1954Nov 22Humane Society formed.
1955Nov 22Shemp Howard (60), comic of “Three Stooges” fame died in Hollywood.
1964Nov 2240,000 paid tribute to John F Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death.
1968Nov 22Beatles released their “Beatles,” (White Album) their only double album.
1969Nov 22Jonathan Beckwith and others of Harvard Univ. announced the isolation of a single gene of E. coli.
1971Nov 22Zez Confrey (b.1895), American composer and pianist, died. His compositions included “Kitten on the Keys” (1921) and “Dizzy Fingers” (1923).
1972Nov 22US ended a 22 year travel ban to China.
1973Nov 22Britain announced a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland.
1974Nov 22UN General Assembly recognized Palestine’s right to sovereignty and national independence.
1975Nov 22Juan Carlos was proclaimed king of Spain.
1977Nov 22Regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis.
1980Nov 22Actress Mae West died in Hollywood at age 87.
1982Nov 22President Reagan called for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile.
1985Nov 22The largest US swearing-in ceremony took place as 38,648 immigrants become US citizens.
1986Nov 22Justice Department found a memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office on the transfer of $12 million to contras from Iran arms sale.
1987Nov 22The government of Nicaragua released 985 political prisoners in a show of compliance with a Central American peace plan.
1989Nov 22The space shuttle Discovery blasted off at night.
1990Nov 22President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and top congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with US troops in Saudi Arabia.
1991Nov 22In an attempt to break a deadlock, the Bush administration proposed that Middle East peace talks resume in Washington, D.C.
1992Nov 22President-elect Bill Clinton met in Little Rock, Ark., with sometime-critic Jesse Jackson, who praised the future chief executive as a leader who could “make the nation whole.”
1993Nov 22Striking flight attendants at American Airlines called off their four-day job action after President Clinton helped broker an agreement to submit the dispute to binding arbitration.
1994Nov 22A gunman opened fire inside the District of Columbia’s police headquarters; the ensuing gun battle left two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman dead.
1995Nov 22The Commerce Department reported the US trade deficit had narrowed to its lowest level in nine months.
1996Nov 22In France truckers continued their Operation Escargot strike for higher pay and earlier retirement for a 5th day.
1997Nov 22A 75 man team of U.N. weapons experts including 4 Americans returned to work in Iraq, searching eight sites for signs the Iraqis might have worked on biological, chemical or other banned arms during a three-week forced halt in inspections.
1998Nov 22In Albania the Socialist government claimed to win a referendum on the nation’s first post-Communist constitution.
1999Nov 22During a visit to the former communist country of Bulgaria, President Clinton promised tens of thousands of cheering Bulgarians in Sofia that “you too shall overcome” in their difficult struggle for democracy and prosperity.
2000Nov 22Dick Cheney, Republican vice-presidential nominee, suffered a minor heart attack.
2001Nov 22Stanford and UCSF researchers reported a long list of genes responsible for multiple schlerosis (MS).
2002Nov 22“Cupid’s Span,” a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen (d.2009 at 66), was set on the Embarcadero at the foot of the Bay Bridge.
2003Nov 22A Medicare prescription drug bill narrowly passed the House, 220-215, following a dusk-to-dawn debate.
2004Nov 22Pres. Bush traveled to Colombia following the summit in Chile.
2005Nov 22In Honduras officials raised the death toll from a tropical storm that hit over the weekend to 32 with 13 people missing.
2006Nov 22The U.S. Copyright Office said cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
2007Nov 22The World Health Organization said nearly 400 people, mostly children, have fallen ill in Angola in what medical investigators suspect is an outbreak of bromide poisoning.
2008Nov 22The French Socialist Party said that Martine Aubry, the architect of France’s 35-hour work week, has won the party’s leadership in an extremely tight race, an outcome quickly challenged by partisans of rival Segolene Royal.
2009Nov 22Country crossover star Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson at the American Music Awards, winning five prizes including artist of the year.
2010Nov 22The US and its allies accused North Korea of being a danger to the region after it showed off its latest advances in uranium enrichment, but Washington said it was still open to talks.
2011Nov 22A British soldier was reported killed by an explosion in Afghanistan while on patrol in Central Helmand province.
2012Nov 22In Wheaton, Mo., 5 people, including a child, were killed when a fire broke out in an apartment building.
2013Nov 22President Barack Obama praised the “leadership” of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI after holding wide-ranging talks with the North African monarch for the first time at the White House.
2014Nov 22US Vice President Joe Biden announced nearly $135 million in humanitarian aid to help feed civilians affected by Syria’s war.
Source: Timelines of History 

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