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What happened in history on this day: November 22?
On November 22 in ...
- 1842 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state, USA, erupts.
- 1871 - Oscar J Dunn (Lieutenant Governor-Louisiana), dies suddenly, possibly was poisoned.
- 1910 - A group of men meet in secret at Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA, to write legislation to revise US banking system to produce a central bank under their control. The men are US Senator Nelson Aldrich, his secretary Arthur B. Shelton, assistant secretary to Treasury and special assistant to National Monetary Commission A. Piatt Andrew, president of National City Bank of New York Frank Vanderlip, senior partnet at J.P. Morgan Company Henry P. Davidson, president of First National Bank of New York Charles D. Norton, lieutenant of J.P. Morgan Benjamin Strong, partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company Paul Warburg.
- 1914 - In Batavia, New York, falling meteorites damage a farm.
- 1923 - US President Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death.
- 1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
- 1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American President Franklin Roosevelt, and Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo, Egypt, over five days. They agree on military strategy against Japan.
- 1950 - 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, New York, USA.
- 1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the murders of Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president at 2:39 p.m.
- 1963 - Moments after US President Kennedy is shot, a false statement blaming Cuba is sent from U.S. Army Intelligence in Texas to the U.S. Strike Command in MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, and armed fighter planes are launched to attack Cuba.
- 1967 - Silver hits record US$2.17 an ounce in New York.
- 1972 - The US loses its first B-52 bomber to hostile fire in Vietnam; the crew abandon the damaged aircraft over Thailand.
- 1977 - Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins.
- 1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown, Louisiana, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused the ship to leak.
- 1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 1989 - Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired.
- 1989 - The Mirage hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the first "megaresort" built in Las Vegas, at a cost of $640 million, providing 3400 hotel rooms. On opening night, Elmer Sherwin wins US$4.6 million on a Megabucks spin. About 200,000 people attend the opening.
- 1990 - US President George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving.
- 2020 - The United States withdraws from the Treaty on Open Skies.
Births on November 22
- 1854 - Birth of G.F.C. Smillie in New York City, New York, USA; bank note engraver.
- 1856 - Birth of Heber J Grant in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 7th President of Mormon church.
- 1898 - Birth of Wiley Post in Grand Plain, Texas, USA; aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska).
- 1899 - Birth of Hoagy Carmichael in Bloomington, Indiana, USA; actor/songwriter (Stardust).
- 1904 - Birth of Roland Winters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers).
- 1906 - Birth of Lee Patrick in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Henrietta - Topper, The Maltese Falcon).
- 1910 - Birth of Mary Jackson in Milford, Michigan, USA; actress (Emily - The Waltons).
- 1921 - Birth of Rodney Dangerfield in Babylon, New York, USA; comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School).
- 1924 - Birth of Geraldine Page in Kirksville, Missouri, USA; actress (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful).
- 1925 - Birth of Gunther Schuller in New York City, New York, USA; hornist/composer (Visitation).
- 1930 - Birth of Owen K Garriott in Enid, Oklahoma, USA; astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9).
- 1932 - Birth of Robert Vaughn in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Napoleon Solo - Man from UNCLE, I Spy).
- 1935 - Birth of Michael Callan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Peter - Occasional Wife).
- 1939 - Birth of Allen Garfield in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II).
- 1940 - Birth of Terry Gilliam in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; comedy writer-animator (Monty Python's Flying Circus).
- 1942 - Birth of Guion S Bluford Junior in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 8, STS 61A, STS 39).
- 1943 - Birth of Billie Jean King in Long Beach, California, USA; tennis pro (Wimbledon 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975).
- 1958 - Birth of Jamie Lee Curtis in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Anything But Love, Halloween).
- 1961 - Birth of Mariel Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, USA; actress (Manhattan, Personal Best).
- 1964 - Birth of Stephen Geoffreys in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actor (Faternity Vacation).
- 1966 - Birth of Brian Robbins in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Eric - Head of the Class).
Deaths on November 22
- 1871 - Oscar J Dunn (Lieutenant Governor-Louisiana), dies suddenly, possibly was poisoned.
- 1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the murders of Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president at 2:39 p.m.
- 1980 - Death of Mae West, American actress, at her Hollywood residence at age 87 (born 1893).
- 1983 - Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at age 58.
- 1986 - Death of Scatman Crothers, American actor (Louie - Chico and the Man), musician, at age 76 (born 1910).
- 1989 - Death of C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (born 1910).
- 1992 - Death of Sterling Holloway of cardiac arrest at age 87; actor (Rin Tin Tin, Willy, The Life of Riley, The Baileys of Balboa, Adventures of Superman, Gilligan's Island, That Girl, F-Troop), voice of Winnie the Pooh in TV and film.
- 2020 - Death of Carlo D'Este at age 84 in Cape Cod, Massachusettes, USA; historian, biographer, author, recipient of 2011 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
- 2023 - Death of Jean Knight at age 80 of natural causes in Tampa, Florida; singer ("Mr. Big Stuff" song (1971)).
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