22 November

The **22nt o November** is the 326t day o the year (327t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 39 days bidin.

## Events

* 1412 - A flood on the lawer Elbe kills 30,000 fowk.
* 1497 - Vasco da Gama sails aroond the Cape o Guid Hope.
* 1574 - Discovery o the Juan Fernandez Islands off Chile.
* 1847 - Fire on a Loch Michigan paddle steamer kills 250 fowk.
* 1850 - Denver, Colorado, is foondit.
* 1869 - The clipper Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbairton.
* 1873 - French steamer "SS Ville du Havre" sinks in 12 minutes efter collidin wi Scots ship "Loch Earn" in the Atlantic Ocean, killin 226 fowk.
* 1943 - Lebanon gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
* 1956 - The 1956 Simmer Olympics in Melbourne, Australie, stairt.
* 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35t Preses o the Unitit States, is assassinatit in Dallas, Texas.
* 1975 - Juan Carlos becomes Keeng o Spain, efter the daith o Francisco Franco.
* 1977 - Concorde maks its flicht frae Paris tae New York Ceety.
* 1989 - Preses o Lebanon René Moawad is assassinatit in Beirut. 
* 1990 - Margaret Thatcher propales her demission as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 2001 - Jack McConnell becomes the 3rd First Meenister o Scotland.
* 2002 - A bomb attack is carried oot in Nigerie, aimed at the Miss World Contest.
* 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes Chancellor o Germany.
* 2010 - A mass panic at the Bon Om Thook Watter Festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodie, kills 339 fowk.
* 2017 - Ratko Mladic is foond guilty o genocide in relation tae the Srebrenica massacre an sentencit tae life in prison.

## Births

* 1515 - Mary o Guise, Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1560)
* 1602 - Elisabeth o Fraunce (d. 1644)
* 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 1818)
* 1753 - Dugald Stewart, Scots philosopher an mathemateecian (d. 1828)
* 1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot (d. 1810)
* 1819 - George Eliot, Inglis writer (d. 1880)
* 1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat an politeecian (d. 1924)
* 1868 - John Nance Garner, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1967)
* 1877 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spaingie fitbawer an businessman (d. 1930)
* 1881 - Enver Pasha, Turkish militar afficer (d. 1922)
* 1890 - Charles de Gaulle, Preses o Fraunce (d. 1970)
* 1913 - Benjamin Britten, Inglis componer (d. 1976)
* 1917 - Andrew Huxley, Inglis pheesiologist an biopheesicist (d. 2012)
* 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American actor, comedian, director an writer (d. 2004)
* 1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian director (d. 2016)
* 1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
* 1928 - Willie Fernie, Scots fitbawer (d. 2011)
* 1936 - Alex Scott, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001)
* 1940 - Terry Gilliam, American-Inglis actor, director an screenwriter
* 1941 - Tom Conti, Scots actor
* 1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player
* 1950 - Jim Jefferies, Scots fitbawer an coach
* 1954 - Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politeecian
* 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
* 1959 - Frank McAvennie, Scots fitbawer
* 1965 - Mads Mikkelsen, Dens actor
* 1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
* 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
* 1968 - Sidse Babett Knudsen, Dens actress
* 1976 - Torsten Frings, German fitbawer
* 1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
* 1985 - Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian fitbawer
* 1986 - Oscar Pistorius, Sooth Africae athlete
* 1987 - Marouane Fellaini, Belgian fitbawer
* 1989 - Chris Smalling, Inglis fitbawer
* 1991 - Scott Bain, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths

* 1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
* 1718 - Blackbeard, Inglis pirate (b. c. 1680)
* 1760 - Charles Alston, Scots botanist (b. 1683)
* 1879 - John Allan Broun, Scots scientist (b. 1817)
* 1912 - Ramsay Traquair, Scots naituralist (b. 1840)
* 1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
* 1942 - Arthur Eddington, Inglis astropheesicist an astronomer (b. 1882)
* 1954 - Jimmy Gordon, Scots fitbawer (b. 1888)
* 1962 - René Coty, Preses o Fraunce (b. 1882)
* 1963 - Aldous Huxley, Inglis writer (b. 1894)
* 1963 - C. S. Lewis, Erse writer (b. 1898)
* 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1917)
* 1980 - Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
* 1989 - René Moawad, Lebanese politeecian (b. 1925)
* 1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australie sangster (b. 1960)
* 2015 - Kim Young-sam, Preses o Sooth Korea (b. 1927)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Lebanon
* Albanie Alphabet Day
* The **22nt o November** is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
:St. Cecilia
:St. Tigridia
:St. Devniolin
:St. Lucretia
:St. Mark & Stephen
:St. Maurus

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