1654 – French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1783 – Annapolis, Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1848 – Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1956 – Vladimir Kuts of the Soviet Union runs Olympic record 28:45.6 to win the 10,000m at the Melbourne Olympics; later also wins 5,000m gold
1974 – Alexis Argüello of Nicaragua knocks out Mexican defending champion Rubén Olivares in the 13th round at the Forum in Inglewood, California, to claim the WBA world featherweight boxing title
1983 – USSR leaves weapon disarmament talks
1991 – Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
2015 – Lydia Ko (18) of New Zealand wins women’s LPGA Player of the Year and retains the Race to the CME Globe title worth $1 million
2021 – NASA launches its DART Mission, to test technology to prevent future impact on earth by hazardous asteroid, by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid (in a real life echo of the movie Armageddon)
2021 – Egypt reopens its 3000 year old Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor with a grand ceremony
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd November 2022
498 – St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
1861 – Battle of Fort McRee, Florida
1941 – British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
1968 – 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek – Captain Kirk and Uhura)
1974 – Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1986 – 20 year old Mike Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history when he stops titleholder Trevor Berbick in round 2 at Las Vegas Hilton to earn the WBC title
1993 – Neil Simon’s comedy “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances
1999 – “How Do You Like Me Now?!” single released by Toby Keith (Billboard Song of the Year 2000)
2003 – 5th Rugby World Cup Final, Stadium Australia, Sydney: Fly-half Jonny Wilkinson lands winning drop goal in extra time as England beats Australia, 20-17
2008 – 13th Rugby League World Cup: New Zealand beats Australia 34-20
Historical Events for 21st November 2022
1783 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d’Arlandes make 1st manned free balloon flight in a Montgolfier balloon
1806 – Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with Britain
1880 – Henry Stanley and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo
1938 – -24] Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
1980 – Gene Michael named 25th New York Yankees manager, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
1980 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1990 – French President François Mitterrand voices support for a proposed UN resolution that would authorize the use of force in the Persian Gulf
1993 – Top seeded German tennis player Steffi Graf wins WTA Tour Championship; beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 6–1, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
2013 – The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys
2017 – Robert Mugabe’s resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe’s parliaments during impeachment proceedings
Historical Events for 20th November 2022
1901 – Opera “Grisélidis” by Jules Massenet, Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand premieres in Paris
1923 – Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, an important development in automobile safety
1928 – Boston Gardens opens, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1966 – Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1977 – Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL record 275 yards
1980 – Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1989 – Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1990 – Soviet Union shows reluctance to endorse the use of force against Iraq
1998 – Court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
2019 – Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in “Science Advances”
Historical Events for 19th November 2022
1798 – Dutch Rijksmuseum founded in the Hague (moved to Amsterdam 1808)
1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1952 – North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 – “Dear Oscar” closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
1986 – Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1996 – “Sex and Longing” closes at Cort Theater NYC
1998 – Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of the Artist Without Beard” sells at auction for $71.5 million
1999 – In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.
Historical Events for 18th November 2022
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Carlisle
1942 – Thornton Wilder’s “Skin of our Teeth” premieres in NYC
1956 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase “we will bury you!” to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow
1984 – “3 Musketeers” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1993 – WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
2007 – 35th American Music Awards: Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Carrie Underwood win
2013 – 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2020 – US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
2021 – Longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds
Historical Events for 17th November 2022
1183 – Battle of Mizushima: Japanese Taira clan defeat the Minamoto
1292 – (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scots
1839 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Oberte Conti Di” premieres in Milan
1869 – Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race, racing 13K Paris to Rouen
1877 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s operette “Sorcerer” premieres in London
1885 – The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1981 – “1st” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 37 performances
1984 – Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
Historical Events for 16th November 2022
1908 – Arturo Toscanini begins conducting NY’s Metropolitan Opera
1935 – Cole Porter’s musical “Anything Goes” closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 420 performances
1945 – Two new elements discovered by Glenn Seaborg, James, Morgan and Albert Ghiorso were are announced: americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96)
1962 – Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1966 – “Greatest Hits” album by The Temptations is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1967)
1972 – Elektra Records releases “No Secrets’, the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon; her commercial breakthrough spends 5 weeks at top of US charts and contains the hit singles “You’re So Vain” and “The Right Thing to Do”
1982 – Tom Stoppard’s play “The Real Thing” premieres in London starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees
2003 – Roger Federer of Switzerland wins his first of 6 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–0, 6–4 victory over American Andre Agassi in the final in Houston, Texas
2019 – 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba
2020 – Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm, just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago
Historical Events for 15th November 2022
1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1913 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Perth: Australian Ernie Parker beats NZ namesake Harry Parker 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
1920 – Ernst Toller’s “Massen und Menschen” premieres in Nuremberg
1953 – WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1987 – Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Nigel Mansell
1989 – “Few Good Men” opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1991 – Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1999 – Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
2017 – The Zimbabwean Army detains Robert Mugabe and the first family and appoints sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as interim president
2020 – World-record price for a Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim sold for €1.6m (£1.4m) at auction
Historical Events for 14th November 2022
1851 – “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US
1914 – Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1927 – World’s largest gas tank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, explodes; 28 die
1957 – Milwaukee Brave Hank Aaron wins NL MVP
1964 – “Oliver!” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 774 performances
1969 – 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
1993 – “Kentucky Cycle” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances
2007 – the last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down.
2008 – Elizabeth Warren is appointed to chair a Congressional Oversight Panel for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
2016 – “Moana” animated Disney film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker with voices by Auli’i Cravalho and The Rock premieres in Los Angeles