22 November

The 22nt o November is the 326t day o the year (327t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 39 days bidin.

• 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.

• 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

• 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)

• Naitional Day o Lebanon
• Albanie Alphabet Day
• The 22nt o November is the feast day o the follaein saunts:

St. Cecilia

St. Tigridia

St. Devniolin

St. Lucretia

St. Mark & Stephen

St. Maurus