Major Events
- 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
- 1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
- 1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
- 1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas
- 1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
- 2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany
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Nov 22 in Film & TV
- 1995 "Toy Story", the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released
Nov 22 in Music
- 1955 RCA Records make its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley's contract
Nov 22 in Sport
- 1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
Did You Know?
Vanellope Wilkins, born with her heart outside her body, is first UK baby to survive birth and operations to reinsert her heart
Abigail Adams
George Eliot
André Gide
Enver Pasha
Charles de Gaulle
Wiley Post
Hoagy Carmichael
Rodney Dangerfield
Geraldine Page
Jamie Lee Curtis
Scarlett Johansson
Baby Ariel
Benjamin Britten
Ralph Guldahl
Eugene Stoner
Billie Jean King
Boris Becker
Fun Fact About November 22
1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek - Captain Kirk and Uhura)
Famous Weddings
- 1964 American actress and singer Rosemary Clooney (36) weds Puerto Rican actor José Ferrer (51) for the second time in Los Angeles, California; divorce a second time in 1967
- 1965 American folk singer Bob Dylan (24) weds American model and actress Sara Lowndes (26); divorce in 1977
- 1997 "The Lord of The Rings" actor Sean Bean (38) weds actress Abigail Cruttenden (29)
Famous Divorces
- 2011 American singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (27) divorces American "Fall Out Boy" bassist Pete Wentz (32) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half year of marriage
- 2022 "Hot in Cleveland" actress Valerie Bertinelli (62) divorces financial planner Tom Vitale due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage
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Henry Wilson
Aldous Huxley
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John F. Kennedy
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The Assassination of President Kennedy
The shocking public killing of President Kennedy in 1963 was a momentous event in world history, giving birth to dozens of conspiracy theories.
November 22, 1963
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas, moments before he was assassinated
November 22, 1963
