Summary of the Day ✨ 22 November (22/11)
A day of tragic violence unfolded across multiple locations, including a deadly Walmart shooting in Virginia, the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and a catastrophic stampede at a Cambodian water festival that killed 347 people. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Orange Revolution began amid disputed presidential elections, while a DHL cargo plane survived being struck by a surface-to-air missile shortly after takeoff from Baghdad.
Historical Events 📜
- 2022: A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
- 2014: While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.
- 2010: During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.
- 2004: The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership.
- 1989: NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
- 1987: The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident takes place, in which a pirate broadcast interrupts television broadcasts in Chicago.
- 1975: Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco two days earlier.
- 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.
- 1968: Japan Air Lines Flight 2 accidentally ditches in San Francisco Bay while on approach to San Francisco International Airport. No one is injured.
- 1967: UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
- 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.
- 1963: Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.
Famous Births 👶
- 2002: Brandon Miller, American basketball player
- 2002: Owen Power, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2001: Chenle, Chinese singer
- 2000: Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress and singer
- 1999: Trey McBride, American football player
- 1999: Dwight McNeil, English footballer
- 1996: Hailey Bieber, American model
- 1996: Mackenzie Lintz, American actress
- 1996: JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player
- 1996: Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer, member of boy band Seventeen
- 1995: Katherine McNamara, American actress
- 1994: Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player
- 1994: Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
- 1994: Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer
- 1994: Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Serge Vohor, Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1955)
- 2022: John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (born 1933)
- 2022: Raşit Küçük, Turkish Islamicist (born 1947)
- 2020: Otto Hutter, Austrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)
- 2017: George Avakian, American music producer (born 1919)
- 2017: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (born 1962)
- 2017: Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter (born 1958)
- 2016: M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (born 1930)
- 2015: Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1949)
- 2015: Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)
- 2015: Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, President of South Korea (born 1927)
- 2013: Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (born 1935)
- 2013: Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (born 1926)
- 2013: Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (born 1931)
- 2012: Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (born 1933)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Cecilia - Christian feast day:
Pedro Esqueda Ramírez - Christian feast day:
Philemon and Apphia - Christian feast day:
Pragmatius of Autun - Christian feast day:
Blessed Salvatore Lilli - Christian feast day:
November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Good Spouses Day (いい夫婦の日) celebrates married couples in Japan.
- Independence Day celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.