On This Day — 22 November

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

1940

World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

World War II

1935

The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

China Clipper

1908

The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

Congress of Manastir

1873

The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

SS Ville du Havre

1869

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

Dumbarton

1855

In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

Birmingham

1837

Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.

William Lyon Mackenzie

1718

Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.

Royal Navy

1635

Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.

Dutch Formosa

1574

Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

Juan Fernández (explorer)

1307

Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.

Pope Clement V

1220

Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

1210

The Castle of Termes falls to Simon de Montfort after a four-month siege during the Albigensian Crusade.

Château de Termes

845

The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.

Brittany

498

After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

Pope Anastasius II