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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”
November 22 – A Day as Today
- 1462: in Spain the first written record of the arrival of the gypsies in Andalusia is published.
- 1497: in southern Africa, the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama doubles the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1504: in Madrid, Ferdinand the Catholic grants the condition of town to Colmenar Viejo.
- 1559: in Spain, King Felipe II publishes a pragmatic forbidding Spaniards to study abroad.
- 1574: a group of Spanish sailors under the command of Juan Fernández, during a trip from Callao (Peru) to Valparaíso (Chile), deviates due to a storm, and arrives at the Juan Fernández archipelago. They are the first Europeans to see these islands.
- 1822: the Congress of Verona (Italy) decides to send the One Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis to Spain.
- 1824: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador promulgate the Constitution that unites the five countries in the Federal Republic of Central America.
- 1861: 80 km west of Rosario (Argentina), shortly before midnight, the unitary Buenos Aires troops of the Uruguayan military Venancio Flores, sent by General Bartolomé Miter, slaughter 300 Argentine federal soldiers in the massacre of Cañada de Gomez. Among the survivors are José Hernández, Rafael Hérnández, and Leandro N. Alem.
- 1873: the French ocean liner Ville du Havre sinks on its way to New York and 226 people die.
- 1915: the Ottoman army defeats the British, commanded by General Townsend.
- 1918: in application of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia suspends hostilities against Germany.
- 1922: in Italy, Parliament gives full powers to Benito Mussolini, the prime minister of the new coalition government.
- 1932: between Milan and Turin (Italy) a 126 km motorway is inaugurated.
- 1934: in Spain, the engineer and pilot Ramón Torres begins his flight to Africa. He will be the first Spanish aviator to cross the Sahara Desert,
- 1943: Lebanon becomes independent from the British Empire.
- 1948: Vietnam applies for admission to the United Nations.
- 1949: in Argentina, the constitutional president Juan Domingo Perón publishes decree No. 29,337 that orders that the national universities of that country will be free for the inhabitants of Argentina and all Latin American countries. That law continues to this day. For this reason, in 2007, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declared that November 22 was considered “National Day of University Gratuity.”
- 1952: the country’s first television plant, the National Television, is inaugurated in Venezuela.
- 1955: in Siberia, the Government of the Soviet Union explodes a powerful hydrogen bomb.
- 1955: in Buenos Aires – in the context of the coup against the constitutional government of Juan Domingo Perón – Argentine Army soldiers join the CGT (General Labor Confederation) and kidnap the embalmed corpse of Eva Perón (1919-1953). They will return it in 1973.
- 1956: in Melbourne the XVI Summer Olympic Games are inaugurated.
- 1963: in Dallas (Texas) John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, is assassinated. He is succeeded by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1963: the British band The Beatles releases their second album, called With the Beatles.
- 1964: in Algeria the MPAIAC (Movement for the Self-determination and Independence of the Canary Archipelago) is founded.
- 1968: the British band The Beatles released their self-titled album, The Beatles.
- 1969: The American Convention on Human Rights (Pact of San José) is signed in San José, Costa Rica.
- 1975: in Spain, Juan Carlos de Borbón is proclaimed king.
- 1977: British Airways inaugurates regular Concorde flights between London and New York.
- 1978: the Spanish Courts approve the Statute of Autonomy of Galicia.
- 1985: Julio Caro Baroja receives the National Prize for Spanish Letters.
- 1990: in the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister. John Major succeeds him.
- 1990: The debut of the professional wrestler The Undertaker in WWE occurs, in the Survivor Series event.
- 1993: Qatar Airways is created.
- 1995: in Israel, Simón Peres assumes the head of the Government and the position of Defense Minister, after the assassination of Isaac Rabin.
- 2000: In Peru, Valentín Paniagua Corazao becomes transitional president, following the resignation of Alberto Fujimori from Japan.
- 2004: In Ukraine, massive protests against electoral fraud promoted by the government lead to the Orange Revolution led by pro-Western Víktor Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko.
- 2010: in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) a “human avalanche” causes more than 330 deaths during the Water Festival.
- 2010: the new CNN en Español starts
- 2013: Magnus Carlsen is proclaimed world chess champion after defeating Viswanathan Anand by 6.5-3.5.
- 2015: in Argentina a second electoral round for the presidency was held for the first time, in which Mauricio Macri was the winner with 51.45%, with a participation of 80.92% of the electoral roll.
- 2016: a 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in Japan 37 km off the east coast.
- 2019: in Colombia more exact in the capital Bogotá there is a curfew in three locations from 08:00 p.m. at 6:00 a.m. on November 23 and throughout the capital from 09:00 p.m. to 06:00 a.m. On the same November 23, a measure that had not lasted since 1977, it occurs again after 42 years with respect to vandalism in the city, alluding to a national strike that took place in the country.
- 2020: Legendary wrestler The Undertaker celebrates his 30th anniversary of his WWE debut and officially retires from professional wrestling at the Survivor Series event.
Who was Born “A Day as Today”?
November 22 – A Day as Today
- 1428: Ricardo Neville, English aristocrat (d. 1471).
- 1458: Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505).
- 1515: Mary of Guise, Scottish queen (d. 1560).
- 1533: Alfonso II of Este, Italian aristocrat (d. 1597).
- 1535: John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg, Dutch aristocrat (d. 1606).
- 1602: Isabel de Borbón, Spanish queen consort (d. 1644).
- 1643: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687).
- 1766: Camilo Torres Tenorio, Colombian politician and lawyer (d. 1816).
- 1767: Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean nationalist (d. 1810).
- 1777: José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran politician (d. 1834).
- 1786: Estanislao López, Argentine military man (d. 1838).
- 1808 – Thomas Cook, British businessman (d. 1892).
- 1819: George Eliot, British writer (d. 1880).
- 1833: Cecilio Pujazón y García, Spanish military man and astronomer (d. 1891).
- 1842: José María de Heredia, Cuban-French poet (d. 1905).
- 1852: Paul d’Estournelles, French diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1909 (d. 1924).
- 1857: George Gissing, British writer (d. 1903).
- 1859: Fusajirō Yamauchi, founder and first president of Japanese Nintendo (d. 1940).
- 1859: Cecilia Grierson, first Argentine doctor (d. 1934).
- 1860: Cecilio Pla, Spanish painter (d. 1934).
- 1869: André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize Winner for literature in 1947 (d. 1951).
- 1873: Matteo Bartoli, Italian linguist (d. 1943).
- 1874: Cristóbal de Castro, Spanish writer (d. 1953).
- 1875: Tomás Berreta, Uruguayan president (d. 1947).
- 1875: Pablo Podestá, Uruguayan artist (d. 1923).
- 1877: Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919).
- 1877: Hans Gamper, Spanish businessman, founder of the Barcelona Football Club (d. 1930).
- 1881: İsmail Enver, Turkish military man (d. 1922).
- 1884: Rafael Monasterios, Venezuelan plastic artist (d. 1961).
- 1890: Charles de Gaulle, French military man and statesman (d. 1970).
- 1891: Joaquín Planell Riera, Spanish military and politician (d. 1969).
- 1893 – Harley Earl, American car designer (d. 1969).
- 1897: Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989).
- 1898: Gabriel González Videla, Chilean politician, president between 1946 and 1952 (d. 1980).
- 1899: Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981).
- 1901: Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (f. 1999).
- 1901: José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan soccer player (d. 1957).
- 1902: Jacques Leclerc, French general during World War II (d. 1947).
- 1904: Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize winner for physics in 1970 (f. 2000).
- 1907: Guido Masetti, Italian footballer (f. 1993).
- 1908: Cecil Baugh, Jamaican sculptor (d. 2005).
- 1910: Raphael Patai, Hungarian Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist (d. 1996).
- 1911: George Albert Llano, Cuban professor, botanist, lichenologist and mycologist (f. 2003).
- 1913: Benjamin Britten, British composer and pianist (d. 1976).
- 1914: Roy Crowson, British biologist (d. 1999).
- 1917: Andrew Fielding Huxley, British biophysicist, 1963 Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (d. 2012).
- 1917: Jean-Étienne Marie French composer (f. 1989).
- 1918: Blas Piñar, Spanish politician (f. 2014).
- 1919: Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago, theologian and Puerto Rican Catholic layman (d. 1963).
- 1921: Rodney Dangerfield, American actor and comedian (d. 2004).
- 1922: Raimundo Pérez Lezama, Spanish soccer goalkeeper (d. 2007).
- 1923: Arthur Hiller, Canadian filmmaker (d. 2016).
- 1924: Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987).
- 1930 – Owen Garriott, American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut (d. 2019).
- 1932: Robert Vaughn, American actor (d. 2016).
- 1934: Aldyr García Schlee, Brazilian writer, journalist and teacher, creator of the official shirt of the Brazilian soccer team.
- 1935: Esperanza Roy, Spanish actress.
- 1940: Terry Gilliam, American actor, filmmaker and illustrator.
- 1940: Roy Thomas, American screenwriter and editor.
- 1940: Alberto Fouillioux, French-Chilean footballer.
- 1942: Frank Duval, German composer.
- 1943: Billie Jean King, American tennis player.
- 1944: Miguel García-Posada, Spanish poet, essayist and teacher (f. 2012).
- 1945: Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (d. 2010).
- 1946: Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician, of the band The Wailers.
- 1947: Alfredo Cristiani, former Salvadoran president.
- 1947: Mario Fernández Baeza, Chilean lawyer.
- 1948: Radomir Antić, Serbian coach.
- 1948: Diego Rapoport, Argentine jazz and rock keyboardist and composer (d. 2011).
- 1950: José Luis Campuzano, singer, bassist and composer, former member of Barón Rojo.
- 1950: Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer.
- 1950: Steven Van Zandt, American guitarist, of the band E Street Band.
- 1950: Tina Weymouth, American singer, of the band Talking Heads.
- 1951: Kent Nagano, American conductor and musician.
- 1951: Carlos Watson, former Costa Rican footballer.
- 1955: James Edwards, American basketball player.
- 1955: Osvaldo Picardo, Argentine poet, essayist, critic and teacher.
- 1956: Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx).
- 1958: Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress.
- 1959: Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist.
- 1960: Léos Carax, French filmmaker.
- 1960: Jorge Villalmanzo, Spanish writer (d. 2012).
- 1961: Mariel Hemingway, American actress.
- 1961: Pedro Marín, Spanish singer.
- 1961: Glenda Umaña, Costa Rican journalist.
- 1962: Sumi Jo, South Korean opera singer.
- 1962: Víktor Pelevin, Russian writer.
- 1965: Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor.
- 1966: Maria do Rosário, Brazilian politician and teacher.
- 1967: Boris Becker, German tennis player.
- 1967: Mark Ruffalo, American actor.
- 1968: Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic programmer.
- 1971: Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress.
- 1972: Francisco de Asís de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú, Franco’s great-grandson.
- 1975: Aiko, Japanese singer.
- 1975: Lucrecia Blanco, Argentine actress.
- 1976: Torsten Frings, German footballer.
- 1976: Ville Valo, Finnish singer and songwriter, leader of the band HIM.
- 1977: Cecilia Gessa, Spanish actress.
- 1977: Marger Sealey, Venezuelan singer-songwriter and actress.
- 1978: Karen O, Korean singer, of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
- 1979: Raúl Arévalo, Spanish actor.
- 1980: Jonny Gomes, American baseball player.
- 1980: Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster.
- 1981: Song Hye Kyo, South Korean actress.
- 1981: Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer.
- 1981: Stefan Mücke, German motorsport driver.
- 1981: Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player.
- 1982: Steve Angello, Greek-Swedish DJ.
- 1982: Mathieu Bodmer, French footballer.
- 1983: Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist, of the band Trivium.
- 1984: Davide Chiumiento, Swiss footballer.
- 1984: Scarlett Johansson, American actress.
- 1984: Yusmeiro Petit, Venezuelan baseball player.
- 1984: Tomasz Zahorski, Polish footballer.
- 1985: Tomás González, Chilean gymnast.
- 1985: Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer.
- 1986: Oscar Pistorius, South African athlete.
- 1987: Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer.
- 1988: Jamie Campbell Bower, British actor.
- 1988: Jessica Vall, swimmer and Spanish biologist.
- 1989: Chris Smalling, British footballer.
- 1989: Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer.
- 1993: Kihyun, Korean singer, songwriter and dancer, of the boyband Monsta X.
- 1994: Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor.
- 1995: Katherine McNamara, American actress.
- 1996: Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, producer and lyricist, of the boyband Seventeen.
- 1996: Hailey Baldwin, American model.
- 1996: Madison Davenport, American actress and singer.
- 2000: Auli’i Cravalho, American actress and singer.
- 2001: Zhong Chenle, Chinese singer, songwriter, dancer and actor, of the boyband NCT, in the subunit NCT Dream.
Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?
November 22 – A Day as Today
- 1594 – Martin Frobisher, British navigator (b. 1535 or 1539).
- 1617: Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590).
- 1718: Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b.1680).
- 1868: Manuel Moreno López, Spanish politician (b. 1815).
- 1875 – Henry Wilson, American Vice President (b.1812).
- 1887: Randolph Barnes Marcy, American military man (b. 1812).
- 1896: Vicente Riva Palacio, lawyer, politician, military man, writer, historian, journalist and Mexican diplomat (b. 1832).
- 1898: Enrique de las Morenas y Fossi, Spanish politician, governor in the Philippines (b. 1855).
- 1900: Arthur Seymour Sullivan, British composer (b.1842).
- 1901: Genaro Codina, Mexican musician, creator of the Zacatecas March (b. 1852).
- 1902: Friedrich Krupp, German industrialist (b.1854).
- 1908: Claude Taffanel, French musician (b. 1844).
- 1916: Jack London, American writer (b. 1876).
- 1919: Francisco Pascasio Moreno, Argentine scientist and explorer (b. 1852).
- 1920: Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884).
- 1921: Émile Boutroux, French philosopher (b. 1845).
- 1929: Jaime Ferrán y Clua, Spanish microbiologist (b. 1851).
- 1944: Arthur Eddington, British astronomer and physicist (b. 1882).
- 1955: Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian, from The Three Stooges (b. 1895).
- 1963: Aldous Huxley, British writer (b. 1894).
- 1963: John F. Kennedy, American president (b.1917).
- 1963: Clive Staples Lewis, Irish writer (b.1898).
- 1980: Mae West, American actress (b. 1893).
- 1981: Hans Adolf Krebs, British scientist of German origin, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1953 (b. 1900).
- 1982: Max Deutsch, Austrian-French composer (b.1892).
- 1985: Epifanio Méndez Fleitas, Paraguayan writer, musician and politician (b. 1917).
- 1985: María Sabina, Mexican healer (b. 1894).
- 1988: Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1902).
- 1988: Erich Fried, Austrian poet and translator (b. 1921).
- 1992: Sterling Holloway, American actor (b.1905).
- 1992: Roberto Mouras, Argentine motorist (b.1948).
- 1993: Anthony Burgess, British writer and composer (b. 1917).
- 1993: James Stern, Irish writer (b.1904).
- 1996: María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b.1922).
- 1996: Garrett Birkhoff, American mathematician (b.1911).
- 1997: Michael Hutchence, Australian rock musician (b.1960).
- 1998: Vladimir Démijov, Soviet scientist and surgeon, pioneer in transplants (b. 1916).
- 2000: Théodore Monod, French explorer (b.1902).
- 2000: Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovakian athlete (b.1922).
- 2001: Mary Kay, American businesswoman (b.1918).
- 2001: Luis Santaló, Spanish mathematician (b.1911).
- 2002: Beatriz de Borbón, Spanish Infanta (b.1909).
- 2002: Juan Grijalbo, Spanish editor (b.1911).
- 2006: Rafael Alfonzo Ravard, Venezuelan military and businessman (b.1919).
- 2007: Maurice Béjart, French dancer and choreographer (b.1927).
- 2008: Verity Lambert, British television producer (b.1935).
- 2008: Ibrahim Nasir, Maldivian politician. President of the Maldives from 1968 to 1978 (b.1926)
- 2009: Juan Carlos Muñoz, Argentine soccer player (b.1919).
- 2010: Frank Fenner, Australian scientist and physician (b.1914).
- 2010: Latif Masij, assassinated Pakistani Christian (b.1988).
- 2010: Urbano Navarrete, Spanish cardinal (b.1920).
- 2011: Pío Corcuera, Argentine footballer (b.1921).
- 2011: Miguel González Avelar, Mexican politician and lawyer (b.1937).
- 2011: Elisabeth de Hohenberg, Luxembourg aristocrat (b.1922).
- 2011: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios, Mexican politician (b.1924).
- 2011: Sena Jurinac, Austrian soprano (b.1921).
- 2011: Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b.1938).
- 2011: Danielle Mitterrand, French woman, wife of former President Francois Mitterrand (b.1924).
- 2011: Paul Motian, American jazz musician (b.1931).
- 2012: Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer (b.1962).
- 2012: Pablo Pérez-Mínguez, Spanish photographer (b.1946).
- 2013: Heber Raviolo, Uruguayan professor, literary critic and editor (b.1932).
- 2013: Alceu Ribeiro, Uruguayan painter, sculptor and muralist (b.1919).
- 2014: Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b.1916).
- 2015: Joseph Silverstein, American musician (b.1932).
What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?
November 22 – A Day as Today
- World Schnauzer Day.
- Musician’s Day.
- Mexico: The Best of Baboons rehearsal day.
- Chile:
- Speech Therapist Day.
- Day of the Kindergarten Educator.
- Lebanon: Independence Day.
- Venezuela: Day of the Psychologist.
- Costa Rica: Teacher’s Day.
- Argentina:
- Geographer’s Day.
- Day of the National Flower of Argentina.
- National University Gratuity Day.
- El Salvador: Musician’s Day.
- Spain: Andalusian Gypsy Day.
Catholic Santoral “A Day as Today”
November 22 – A Day as Today
- Saint Ananias of Arbela
- Saint Apphias
- Santa Apia de Colossae
- San Benigno of Milan
- Saint Cecilia of Rome
- Saint Philemon of Colosse
- Saint Maur Martyr
- Saint Michael of Tver
- San Pedro Esqueda Ramirez
- Saint Pragmatius
- Saint Rogerio (monk)
- Blessed Baldji Oghlou Ohannes
- Blessed Bertran Francisco
- Blessed Christopher Robinson
- Blessed David Oghlou David
- Blessed Dimbalac Oghlou Wartavar
- Blessed Elijah Julian
- Blessed Francis Ingleby
- Blessed John Bretton
- Blessed Khodianin Oghlou Kadir
- Blessed Kouradji Oghlou Tzeroum
- Blessed Salvador Lillo
- Blessed Tigrida
- Blessed Thomas Regio
- Blessed Toros Oghlou David
What Sign of the Zodiac Rules those Born “A Day as Today”?
November 22 – A Day as Today
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November 22 – A Day as Today
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