SomeFacts | November 22

On this day - November 22

498 — After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in ...

845 — The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king ...

1210 — The Castle of Termes falls to Simon de Montfort after a ...

1220 — Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope ...

1307 — Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae ...

1574 — Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known ...

1635 — Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign ...

1718 — Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the ...

1837 — Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie ...

1855 — In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the ...

1869 — In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.

1873 — The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after ...

1908 — The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

1921 — During The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922), 22 Irish ...

1935 — The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial ...

1940 — World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek ...

1942 — World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus ...

1943 — Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after ...

1943 — World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. ...

1952 — A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, ...

1955 — The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage ...

1963 — Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to ...

1963 — U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas ...

1967 — UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a ...

1968 — Japan Air Lines Flight 2 accidentally ditches in San Francisco ...

1971 — In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm ...

1975 — Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of ...

1987 — The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident takes place, in ...

1989 — NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified ...

1990 — British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the ...

1994 — A Trans World Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Cessna 441 ...

2003 — Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after ...

2004 — The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the ...

2010 — During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, ...

2014 — While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African ...

2022 — A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven ...