The 22nt o November is the 326t day o the year (327t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 39 days bidin.
Events
- 1412 - A flood on the lawer Elbe kills 30,000 fowk.
- 1497 - Vasco da Gama sails aroond the Cape o Guid Hope.
- 1574 - Discovery o the Juan Fernandez Islands off Chile.
- 1847 - Fire on a Loch Michigan paddle steamer kills 250 fowk.
- 1850 - Denver, Colorado, is foondit.
- 1869 - The clipper Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbairton.
- 1873 - French steamer "SS Ville du Havre" sinks in 12 minutes efter collidin wi Scots ship "Loch Earn" in the Atlantic Ocean, killin 226 fowk.
- 1943 - Lebanon gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
- 1956 - The 1956 Simmer Olympics in Melbourne, Australie, stairt.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35t Preses o the Unitit States, is assassinatit in Dallas, Texas.
- 1975 - Juan Carlos becomes Keeng o Spain, efter the daith o Francisco Franco.
- 1977 - Concorde maks its flicht frae Paris tae New York Ceety.
- 1989 - Preses o Lebanon René Moawad is assassinatit in Beirut.
- 1990 - Margaret Thatcher propales her demission as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 2001 - Jack McConnell becomes the 3rd First Meenister o Scotland.
- 2002 - A bomb attack is carried oot in Nigerie, aimed at the Miss World Contest.
- 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes Chancellor o Germany.
- 2010 - A mass panic at the Bon Om Thook Watter Festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodie, kills 339 fowk.
- 2017 - Ratko Mladic is foond guilty o genocide in relation tae the Srebrenica massacre an sentencit tae life in prison.
Births
- 1515 - Mary o Guise, Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1560)
- 1602 - Elisabeth o Fraunce (d. 1644)
- 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 1818)
- 1753 - Dugald Stewart, Scots philosopher an mathemateecian (d. 1828)
- 1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot (d. 1810)
- 1819 - George Eliot, Inglis writer (d. 1880)
- 1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat an politeecian (d. 1924)
- 1868 - John Nance Garner, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1967)
- 1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spaingie fitbawer an businessman (d. 1930)
- 1881 - Enver Pasha, Turkish militar afficer (d. 1922)
- 1890 - Charles de Gaulle, Preses o Fraunce (d. 1970)
- 1913 - Benjamin Britten, Inglis componer (d. 1976)
- 1917 - Andrew Huxley, Inglis pheesiologist an biopheesicist (d. 2012)
- 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American actor, comedian, director an writer (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian director (d. 2016)
- 1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1928 - Willie Fernie, Scots fitbawer (d. 2011)
- 1936 - Alex Scott, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-Inglis actor, director an screenwriter
- 1941 - Tom Conti, Scots actor
- 1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player
- 1950 - Jim Jefferies, Scots fitbawer an coach
- 1954 - Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politeecian
- 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- 1959 - Frank McAvennie, Scots fitbawer
- 1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Dens actor
- 1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
- 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
- 1968 - Sidse Babett Knudsen, Dens actress
- 1976 - Torsten Frings, German fitbawer
- 1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- 1985 - Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian fitbawer
- 1986 - Oscar Pistorius, Sooth Africae athlete
- 1987 - Marouane Fellaini, Belgian fitbawer
- 1989 - Chris Smalling, Inglis fitbawer
- 1991 - Scott Bain, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
- 1718 - Blackbeard, Inglis pirate (b. c. 1680)
- 1760 - Charles Alston, Scots botanist (b. 1683)
- 1879 - John Allan Broun, Scots scientist (b. 1817)
- 1912 - Ramsay Traquair, Scots naituralist (b. 1840)
- 1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
- 1942 - Arthur Eddington, Inglis astropheesicist an astronomer (b. 1882)
- 1954 - Jimmy Gordon, Scots fitbawer (b. 1888)
- 1962 - René Coty, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1882)
- 1963 - Aldous Huxley, Inglis writer (b. 1894)
- 1963 - C. S. Lewis, Erse writer (b. 1898)
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1917)
- 1980 - Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1989 - René Moawad, Lebanese politeecian (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australie sangster (b. 1960)
- 2015 - Kim Young-sam, Preses o Sooth Korea (b. 1927)
Halidays
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