Tukuk-OS📅 November 22
17 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on November 22? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2013 — Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen (pictured) defeated India's Viswanathan Anand to become world chess champion.
Magnus CarlsenViswanathan AnandWorld Chess Championship 2013
- 1995 — Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.
- 1988 — The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Northrop B-2 SpiritUnited States Air ForceUnited States Air Force Plant 42
- 1987 — Two television stations in Chicago had their broadcast signals hijacked with footage of an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume.
- 1986 — Mike Tyson defeated Trevor Berbick to win the World Boxing Council title, becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
- 1978 — The serpent labret with articulated tongue (pictured articulating between positions), "perhaps the finest Aztec gold ornament to survive the crucibles of the sixteenth century", was sold at Sotheby's.
- 1975 — Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I (pictured) was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
- 1971 — In Britain's worst mountaineering disaster, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands.
- 1968 — The Beatles released their eponymous double album, popularly known as the White Album.
- 1967 — The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
United Nations Security CouncilUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 242Six-Day War
- 1963 — John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas; hours later, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States (pictured).
- 1910 — The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.
South American dreadnought raceRevolt of the LashBrazilian Navy
- 1873 — The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
- 1797 — The Geisel School of Medicine, the fourth oldest medical school in the United States, was founded by the physician Nathan Smith.
Geisel School of MedicineNathan Smith (physician, born 1762)
- 1718 — The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
- 1635 — Dutch colonial forces on Formosa launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
Dutch FormosaDutch pacification campaign on FormosaTaiwanese indigenous peoples
- 1574 — Juan Fernández, a Spanish explorer, discovered an archipelago that now bears his name off the coast of Chile.
Births
- 2002 — Brandon Miller, American basketball player
- 2002 — Owen Power, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2001 — Chenle, Chinese singer
- 2000 — Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress and singer
- 1999 — Trey McBride, American football player
- 1999 — Dwight McNeil, English footballer
- 1996 — Hailey Bieber, American model
- 1996 — Mackenzie Lintz, American actress
- 1996 — JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player
- 1996 — Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer, member of boy band Seventeen
- 1995 — Katherine McNamara, American actress
- 1994 — Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player
Deaths
- 2024 — Serge Vohor, Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1955)
- 2022 — John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (born 1933)
- 2022 — Raşit Küçük, Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)
- 2020 — Otto Hutter, Austrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)
- 2017 — George Avakian, American music producer (born 1919)
- 2017 — Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (born 1962)
- 2017 — Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter (born 1958)
- 2016 — M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (born 1930)
- 2015 — Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1949)
- 2015 — Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)
- 2015 — Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, President of South Korea (born 1927)
- 2013 — Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (born 1935)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Cecilia
- Christian feast day: Pedro Esqueda Ramírez
- Christian feast day: Philemon and Apphia
- Christian feast day: Pragmatius of Autun
- Christian feast day: Blessed Salvatore Lilli
- Christian feast day: November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Good Spouses Day (いい夫婦の日) celebrates married couples in Japan.
- Independence Day celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.
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