Today in History - Famous Events

🏰 On this day in History - November 22, 2024

1714 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden

1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational

1972 Belgium govt of Eyskens resigns

1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues

1936 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC

1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered

1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader

1861 Battle of Ft McRee, FL

1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs

1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death

1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard U

1981 "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances

1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas

1914 Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing

1899 -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)

1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia

1992 Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)

1976 Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts

1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam

1968 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)

1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show

1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia

1961 St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws

1917 NHL forms with Montr‚al Canadiens, Montr‚al Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Qu‚bec Bulldogs; National Hockey Assn disbands

1931 Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres

1930 1st Irish Sweepstake run

1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games

1950 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18

1707 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland

1965 Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title

1794 Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards

1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin

1930 Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit

1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins

1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles

1864 Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties

1964 WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World

1955 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1965 Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes

1944 Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen

1221 Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor

1699 Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden

1959 Boston Patriots enters AFL

1998 ITT LPGA Tour Championship

1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak

1905 British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet attack Lesbos

1922 Wilhelm Cuno forms new German govt

1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan

1984 Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution

1959 AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame

1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1943 Lebanon declares independence from French administration

0365 [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances

1981 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23

1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak

1922 Library Ave in Bronx named

1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US president

1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon

1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minn Twins contract

1967 UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land

1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)

1929 Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG

1992 Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women

1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne

1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit

1930 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements

1981 Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times

1957 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY

1872 Franz Grillparzer's "Die JЃdin von Toledo," premieres in Prague

1954 Humane Society forms

1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons

1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY

1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper

1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man

1995 Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women

1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America

1961 Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

0498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II

1955 RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss

1918 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels

1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0

1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts

1971 "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances

1927 George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC

1919 Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week

1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister

1943 FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death

1952 A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year

1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college

1918 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland

1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0

1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired

1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis

1985 Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens

1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope

1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)

1927 Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC

1996 OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"

1957 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP

1906 Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help

1965 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs

1990 Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia

1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, Calif, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight

1957 Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"

1831 Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)

1926 Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit Commonwealth

1851 Opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)

1968 Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album

1918 Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis

1974 UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty

1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York

1993 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf

1972 US ends 22 year travel ban to China

1675 English king Charles II adjourns parliament

1898 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)

1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain

1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)

1976 Algeria Constitution goes into effect

1985 PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election

1991 NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension

1943 US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island

1966 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)

1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)

1941 NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya

1683 Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London

1942 Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov

1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK

1985 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C

1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals

1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens

1974 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore

1981 SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)

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