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Events from History on November 22

1221 : Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1346 : Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1497 : Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1542 : Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America
1675 : English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 : Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London
1699 : Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1707 : Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
1714 : King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1794 : Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 : Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1831 : Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1842 : Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 : Opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)
1861 : Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 : Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 : Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1872 : Franz Grillparzer's "Die Jdin von Toledo," premieres in Prague
1875 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #156 Xanthippe
1884 : T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 : Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1898 : Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1899 : -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1905 : British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet attack Lesbos
1906 : Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1908 : 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1911 : J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #726 Joella
1914 : Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
1917 : NHL forms with Montr‚al Canadiens, Montr‚al Maroons, Toronto Arenas,
1917 : Ottawa Senators & Qu‚bec Bulldogs; National Hockey Assn disbands
1918 : Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns
1918 : King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
1918 : Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland
1918 : Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1919 : 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
1919 : Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1922 : British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 : Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 : Wilhelm Cuno forms new German govt
1923 : Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 : England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 : Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1926 : Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit Commonwealth
1927 : 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 : George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC
1927 : Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 : "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
1929 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1138 Attica
1930 : 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 : Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1931 : Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres
1932 : Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1934 : "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 : 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1935 : China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, Calif, carrying
1940 : 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1941 : British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1941 : NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1942 : Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 : Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1943 : FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1943 : Lebanon declares independence from French administration
1943 : RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 : US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1944 : Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1945 : "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
1950 : 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1951 : M Laugier discovers asteroid #3220 Murayama
1952 : A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1954 : Humane Society forms
1955 : RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam
1955 : Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1955 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 : 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1957 : Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 : Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY
1957 : Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1959 : AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
1959 : Boston Patriots enters AFL
1960 : French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1961 : Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 : Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive
1961 : publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1963 : Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK
1964 : Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US president
1964 : WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 : "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs
1965 : Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
1965 : Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 : 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1967 : BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
1967 : Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 : UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1967 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 : 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
1968 : Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album
1968 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard U
1971 : "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances
1972 : Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns
1972 : Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 : Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)
1972 : US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1974 : Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1974 : UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1975 : Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1976 : Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 : Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts
1977 : Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
1979 : C Kowal discovers asteroid #2241
1980 : Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons
1980 : of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1981 : "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances
1981 : Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
1981 : SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1981 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 : Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1984 : Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents a sweater to
1984 : Smithsonian Institution
1985 : Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
1985 : Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
1985 : PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1986 : K Suzuki & T Urata discover asteroid #3828 Hoshino, #4035 & #5724
1986 : Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title
1986 : Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1987 : Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1987 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #4631 Yabu
1989 : Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
1989 : B G W Manning discovers asteroid #6191 Eades
1989 : Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1989 : Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but
1989 : Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #6307
1989 : Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minn Twins contract
1989 : N Kawasato discovers asteroid #4381 Uenohara & #4749
1989 : US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1989 : most are not rehired
1990 : George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 : Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 : Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
1991 : NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
1992 : Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
1992 : Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1993 : "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf
1995 : M Tichy & Z Moravec discover asteroid #7495 Feynman
1995 : Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women
1996 : OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death
1996 : lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1998 : ITT LPGA Tour Championship

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