c230The feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patroness of musicians, is November 22nd. Despite her vow of celibacy, the Roman Christian Cecilia was forced by her parents to marry a pagan nobleman named Valerian. She succeeded in persuading Valerian to respect her vow, and converted him to her Christian faith. They were both put to death for their beliefs. While the profane music was played at Saint Cecilia's wedding she was "singing in her heart a hymn of love for Jesus, her true spouse," hence her association with music-making.
1621 The English poet John Donne was appointed the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London on November 22, 1621. For many years Donne was recognized as the most brilliant and eloquent preacher around. Listening to a spellbinding preacher was one of the most popular entertainments available to the common people at the time and many flocked to listen to famous preachers such as Donne. Crowds including the King himself came to hear sermons, which often last several hours.
1718 Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard for his luxuriant beard, was an English pirate. After notorious acts of piracy along the American coast, Blackbeard was killed in a sea battle off the coast of North Carolina with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard on November 22, 1718. His head was mounted on the bowsprit of the ship that defeated him.
1744 Abigail Adams, USA's second First Lady, was born on November 22, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts to Elizabeth and Reverend William Smith, a Congregationalist minister. She is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband, John Adams, while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses.
1774 English general and politician Robert Clive committed suicide on November 22, 1774 at his Berkeley Square home in London aged 49. Two years earlier, Parliament had opened an inquiry into the East India Company's practices in India. Clive's political opponents turned these hearings into attacks on him. Clive's legacy was establishing British dominance in India for more than a century.
1808 Thomas Cook was born on November 22, 1808 at 9 Quick Close in the village of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. The founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son organized his first international tour in 1855, taking two groups on a 'grand circular tour' of of Belgium, Germany and France, ending in Paris for the Exhibition.
1819 English novelist Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was born on November 22, 1819 at Gaff House, Chilvers Coton, a micro-metropolis near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her novels portrayed rural Victorian society, particularly its intellectual hypocrisy, with realism and irony. Though highly esteemed by critics in her day, Eliot's novels had tiny print runs compared with popular writers such as Dickens.
1858 Denver City was founded as a mining town during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in western Kansas Territory. On November 22, 1858, General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas Territory, placed cottonwood logs to stake a claim on the bluff overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, across the creek from the existing mining settlement of Auraria, and on the site of the existing townsite of St. Charles.
1869 The British clipper Cutty Sark was built on Scotland's River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line. Launched on November 22, 1869, the ship was one of the last clippers built for the 19th century tea trade, and one of three to survive to this day.
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr created the first ever Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. After the fair closed, Ferris claimed that the exhibition management had robbed him and his investors of their rightful portion of the nearly $750,000 profit that his wheel brought in. He spent the next two years in litigation before dying of typhoid fever on November 22, 1896.
1900 Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) died of heart failure, following an attack of bronchitis, at his flat in London on November 22, 1900. He was aged only 58. Sullivan had suffered from long-standing recurrent kidney disease that made it necessary, from the 1880s, for him to conduct sitting down.
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| Donne painted by Isaac Oliver |
1718 Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard for his luxuriant beard, was an English pirate. After notorious acts of piracy along the American coast, Blackbeard was killed in a sea battle off the coast of North Carolina with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard on November 22, 1718. His head was mounted on the bowsprit of the ship that defeated him.
1744 Abigail Adams, USA's second First Lady, was born on November 22, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts to Elizabeth and Reverend William Smith, a Congregationalist minister. She is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband, John Adams, while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses.
1774 English general and politician Robert Clive committed suicide on November 22, 1774 at his Berkeley Square home in London aged 49. Two years earlier, Parliament had opened an inquiry into the East India Company's practices in India. Clive's political opponents turned these hearings into attacks on him. Clive's legacy was establishing British dominance in India for more than a century.
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| Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, by Nathaniel Dance |
1808 Thomas Cook was born on November 22, 1808 at 9 Quick Close in the village of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. The founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son organized his first international tour in 1855, taking two groups on a 'grand circular tour' of of Belgium, Germany and France, ending in Paris for the Exhibition.
1819 English novelist Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was born on November 22, 1819 at Gaff House, Chilvers Coton, a micro-metropolis near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her novels portrayed rural Victorian society, particularly its intellectual hypocrisy, with realism and irony. Though highly esteemed by critics in her day, Eliot's novels had tiny print runs compared with popular writers such as Dickens.
1858 Denver City was founded as a mining town during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in western Kansas Territory. On November 22, 1858, General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas Territory, placed cottonwood logs to stake a claim on the bluff overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, across the creek from the existing mining settlement of Auraria, and on the site of the existing townsite of St. Charles.
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| Painting of Denver in 1859 |
1869 The British clipper Cutty Sark was built on Scotland's River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line. Launched on November 22, 1869, the ship was one of the last clippers built for the 19th century tea trade, and one of three to survive to this day.
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr created the first ever Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. After the fair closed, Ferris claimed that the exhibition management had robbed him and his investors of their rightful portion of the nearly $750,000 profit that his wheel brought in. He spent the next two years in litigation before dying of typhoid fever on November 22, 1896.
1900 Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) died of heart failure, following an attack of bronchitis, at his flat in London on November 22, 1900. He was aged only 58. Sullivan had suffered from long-standing recurrent kidney disease that made it necessary, from the 1880s, for him to conduct sitting down.
1911 On November 22, 1911, a landmark decision was made at the Congress of Manastir in Monastir, Ottoman Empire (present-day Bitola, North Macedonia), to standardize the Albanian alphabet. This momentous event, celebrated as Alphabet Day in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia, marked a significant milestone in the unification and preservation of the Albanian language and culture.
1928 In 1928 the dancer Ida Rubinstein asked French composer Maurice Ravel to compose a ballet score transcribed from Isaac Albéniz's set of piano pieces, Iberia. While working on the transcription, it came to Ravel's attention that there were copyright problems, so he decided to write a completely new piece in a Spanish dance style. The work he came up with, Boléro, was debuted at the Paris Opéra on November 22, 1928.
1935 The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, California on November 22, 1935, when the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila in the Philippines. The craft carried over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1950 The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played on November 22, 1950. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18. It occurred in the early years of the NBA when scoring was generally lower than in contemporary games. The pace and style of play were different, and teams often had lower scoring totals compared to modern basketball.
1963 President John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. He was being driven through the city in an open-top convertible with his wife sat beside him. As the car drove into Dealey Plaza, shots were fired. Kennedy was hit twice. The first bullet struck him in the upper back and exited through his throat. The second bullet struck him in his head. He was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital and at 1:00 p.m, was pronounced dead.
1963 Jacqueline Kennedy was seated next to her husband in an open limousine when on November 22, 1963, he was shot in the head by a sniper in Dallas. The courage and dignity Jackie displayed in the aftermath of that tragedy won her international admiration.
1963 Former US marine Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit who had been shot on a Dallas street shortly after President Kennedy was killed. He quickly became the prime suspect in the murder of the president, but denied shooting anyone. Oswald claimed he was a "patsy" as he'd lived in the Soviet Union.
1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Memorial Album became the fastest-selling LP up to that time when four million copies sold between December 7-12, 1963. The memorial tribute was recorded November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
1963 Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office on November 22, 1963, hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, on Air Force One. Johnson's hasty swearing-in was the first time the ceremony has occurred on an airplane and also marked the first time a woman administered the oath of office. U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes administered the oath to Johnson.
1963 In mid-November 1963 the writer C.S. Lewis was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. He collapsed in his bedroom exactly one week before his 65th birthday on November 22, 1963 and died a few minutes later. Media coverage of Lewis' death was almost completely overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred approximately 55 minutes following Lewis' collapse.
1967 Tennis star Boris Becker was born on November 22, 1967 in Leimen, Germany, the only son of Elvira and Karl-Heinz Becker. Karl-Heinz Becker, an architect, designed the tennis center where Becker and Steffi Graf played against each other as children. Boris Becker became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon's men's singles title in 1985. He is also the youngest men's Wimbledon champ in history (at age 17 years, 7 months).
1968 The first interracial kiss on TV took place on November 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt.Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on the "Plato's Stepchildren" episode of Star Trek. The kiss was originally supposed to be between Spock and Uhura. However, when William Shatner heard, he said "If anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it’s gonna be me."
1928 In 1928 the dancer Ida Rubinstein asked French composer Maurice Ravel to compose a ballet score transcribed from Isaac Albéniz's set of piano pieces, Iberia. While working on the transcription, it came to Ravel's attention that there were copyright problems, so he decided to write a completely new piece in a Spanish dance style. The work he came up with, Boléro, was debuted at the Paris Opéra on November 22, 1928.
1935 The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, California on November 22, 1935, when the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila in the Philippines. The craft carried over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1950 The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played on November 22, 1950. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18. It occurred in the early years of the NBA when scoring was generally lower than in contemporary games. The pace and style of play were different, and teams often had lower scoring totals compared to modern basketball.
1963 President John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. He was being driven through the city in an open-top convertible with his wife sat beside him. As the car drove into Dealey Plaza, shots were fired. Kennedy was hit twice. The first bullet struck him in the upper back and exited through his throat. The second bullet struck him in his head. He was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital and at 1:00 p.m, was pronounced dead.
1963 Jacqueline Kennedy was seated next to her husband in an open limousine when on November 22, 1963, he was shot in the head by a sniper in Dallas. The courage and dignity Jackie displayed in the aftermath of that tragedy won her international admiration.
1963 Former US marine Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit who had been shot on a Dallas street shortly after President Kennedy was killed. He quickly became the prime suspect in the murder of the president, but denied shooting anyone. Oswald claimed he was a "patsy" as he'd lived in the Soviet Union.
1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Memorial Album became the fastest-selling LP up to that time when four million copies sold between December 7-12, 1963. The memorial tribute was recorded November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
1963 Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office on November 22, 1963, hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, on Air Force One. Johnson's hasty swearing-in was the first time the ceremony has occurred on an airplane and also marked the first time a woman administered the oath of office. U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes administered the oath to Johnson.
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| Johnson is sworn in as Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Kennedy look on |
1963 In mid-November 1963 the writer C.S. Lewis was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. He collapsed in his bedroom exactly one week before his 65th birthday on November 22, 1963 and died a few minutes later. Media coverage of Lewis' death was almost completely overshadowed by news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred approximately 55 minutes following Lewis' collapse.
1967 Tennis star Boris Becker was born on November 22, 1967 in Leimen, Germany, the only son of Elvira and Karl-Heinz Becker. Karl-Heinz Becker, an architect, designed the tennis center where Becker and Steffi Graf played against each other as children. Boris Becker became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon's men's singles title in 1985. He is also the youngest men's Wimbledon champ in history (at age 17 years, 7 months).
1968 The first interracial kiss on TV took place on November 22, 1968 between Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt.Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) on the "Plato's Stepchildren" episode of Star Trek. The kiss was originally supposed to be between Spock and Uhura. However, when William Shatner heard, he said "If anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it’s gonna be me."
1974 The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in 1964 with the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence aimed at Israeli civilians. The United Nations General Assembly recognized the PLO as the "representative of the Palestinian people" and granted the PLO observer status on November 22, 1974.
1975 Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias became Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, on November 22, 1975 after the death of General Franco. Juan Carlos I, King of Spain. He stepped away from the authoritarian policies of the Francoist regime and began to transition Spain towards democracy. In June 2014, Juan Carlos, citing personal reasons, abdicated in favor of his son, who acceded to the throne as Felipe VI.
1977 A scheduled service from Paris and London to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Concorde began on November 22, 1977. Flying from London to New York by Concorde, due to the time zones crossed, you could arrive two hours before you leave.
1986 South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was born to Henke and Sheila Pistorius on November 22, 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg, in what was then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng Province) of South Africa. He had his lower legs amputated at the age of 11 months, having been born without a fibula in either leg. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Pistorius became the first double-leg amputee to compete in the Olympics, after a long legal battle.
1986 Mike Tyson became a professional boxer in 1985. He won the WBC title on November 22, 1986 after knocking out Trevor Berbick in the second round becoming the youngest ever world heavyweight-boxing champion. (Tyson was 20 years, 4 months old). He added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker in 1987, becoming the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles.
1995 Pixar's first feature film Toy Story was released on November 22, 1995. It was the first animated movie to be completely done with computers instead of hand-drawn animation. During production, the crew used the working title "Toy Story," which they decided to keep. Other titles for the film included "Toy," "You Are A Toy," "I’m With Stupid," "The Cowboy and the Spaceman" and "Did Not, Did Too."
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2005 Angela Merkel became Germany's first female chancellor on November 22, 2005 in a coalition of the two biggest German political parties CDU/CSU and SPD. After the election 2009 Merkel formed a coalition with FDP. She was re-elected to her fourth term on March 14, 2018. In December 2015, she was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
2007 The world record for eating jellied cranberry sauce is 13.23 pounds in 8 minutes. This record was set by "The Lovely" Juliet Lee on November 22, 2007, at Spike TV's MLE Chowdown. Juliet Lee is a competitive eater from Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her ability to eat large quantities of food in a short period of time.
2016 On November 22, 2016, Bruce Springsteen was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom award by Barack Obama. The award is the highest honor for a civilian to receive. Springsteen has sold more than 140 million records worldwide, but has never had a #1 single in the U.S. or Britain.
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