22 November
Notable Births
Brandon Miller (basketball, born 2002)
b. 2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Owen Power
b. 2002
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2002)
Chenle
b. 2001
Chinese singer and actor (born 2001)
Auliʻi Cravalho
b. 2000
American actress (born 2000)
Trey McBride
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Dwight McNeil
b. 1999
English footballer (born 1999)
Hailey Bieber
b. 1996
American model (born 1996)
Mackenzie Lintz
b. 1996
American film and television actress
JuJu Smith-Schuster
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Woozi
b. 1996
South Korean singer-songwriter (born 1996)
Katherine McNamara
b. 1995
American actress and singer (born 1995)
Samantha Bricio
b. 1994
Mexican volleyball player (born 1994)
Dacre Montgomery
b. 1994
Australian actor (born 1994)
Nicolás Stefanelli
b. 1994
Argentine footballer (born 1994)
Keiji Tanaka
b. 1994
Japanese figure skater (born 1994)
Natalie Achonwa
b. 1992
Canadian basketball player (born 1992)
Carles Gil
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Vladislav Namestnikov
b. 1992
Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Tarik Black
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Thomas Cook
b. 1808
English businessman (1808–1892)
Notable Deaths
Serge Vohor
d. 2024
Vanuatuan politician (1955–2024)
John Y. Brown Jr.
d. 2022
American politician and entrepreneur (1933–2022)
Raşit Küçük
d. 2022
Turkish Islamicist (1947–2022)
Otto Hutter
d. 2020
British physiologist (1924–2020)
George Avakian
d. 2017
American record producer (1919–2017)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
d. 2017
Russian baritone (1962–2017)
Tommy Keene
d. 2017
American musician (1958–2017)
M. Balamuralikrishna
d. 2016
Musical artist
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury
d. 2015
Bangladeshi politician (1949–2015)
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed
d. 2015
Bangladeshi politician (1948–2015)
Kim Young-sam
d. 2015
President of South Korea from 1993 to 1998
Georges Lautner
d. 2013
French film director and screenwriter (1926–2013)
Alec Reid
d. 2013
Irish Catholic priest (1931–2013)
Bryce Courtenay
d. 2012
South African–Australian writer (1933–2012)
Svetlana Alliluyeva
d. 2011
Youngest child of Joseph Stalin (1926–2011)
Sena Jurinac
d. 2011
Austrian opera singer (1921 – 2011)
Lynn Margulis
d. 2011
American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011)
Paul Motian
d. 2011
American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer (1931–2011)
Jean Cione
d. 2010
Baseball player
John F. Kennedy
d. 1963
President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
On This Day in History
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2022
A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
2022 Chesapeake shooting
2014
While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.
African Americans
2010
During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.
Bon Om Touk
2004
The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
Orange Revolution
2003
Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident
1994
A Trans World Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft collide on the runway at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Bridgeton, Missouri, killing two people and injuring eight.
Trans World Airlines
1990
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1989
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
NASA
1987
The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident takes place, in which a pirate broadcast interrupts television broadcasts in Chicago.
Max Headroom signal hijacking
1975
Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco two days earlier.
Juan Carlos I
1971
In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
Cairngorm Plateau disaster
1968
Japan Air Lines Flight 2 accidentally ditches in San Francisco Bay while on approach to San Francisco International Airport. No one is injured.
Japan Air Lines Flight 2
1967
UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
1963
U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
John F. Kennedy
1963
Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.
1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
1955
The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
Soviet Union
1952
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, Alaska, killing all 52 aboard.
Douglas C-124 Globemaster II
1943
World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
Cairo Conference
1943
Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
Lebanon
1942
World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
Battle of Stalingrad