132511 | November 21 | Death | 2014 – Robert Richardson, English general (b. 1929) |
132512 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh) |
132513 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | Armed Forces Day (Greece) |
132514 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Pope Gelasius IPresentation of the Blessed Virgin MaryNovember 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
132515 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | Day of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) |
132516 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | National Adoption Day (United States) |
132517 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | No Music Day (Unofficial) |
132518 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | World Hello Day (Unofficial) |
132519 | November 21 | Holiday and observance | World Television Day (International) |
132520 | November 22 | Event | 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. |
132521 | November 22 | Event | 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. |
132522 | November 22 | Event | 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. |
132523 | November 22 | Event | 1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. |
132524 | November 22 | Event | 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. |
132525 | November 22 | Event | 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard. |
132526 | November 22 | Event | 1812 – War of 1812: Seventeen Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek. |
132527 | November 22 | Event | 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. |
132528 | November 22 | Event | 1858 – Denver, Colorado, is founded. |
132529 | November 22 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia. |
132530 | November 22 | Event | 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today. |
132531 | November 22 | Event | 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. |
132532 | November 22 | Event | 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris. |
132533 | November 22 | Event | 1931 – Al-Mina'a SC was founded in Iraq. |
132534 | November 22 | Event | 1935 – The China Clipper, the first plane to offer commercial transpacific air service, takes off from Alameda, California, for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later. |
132535 | November 22 | Event | 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa. |
132536 | November 22 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. |
132537 | November 22 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. |
132538 | November 22 | Event | 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France. |
132539 | November 22 | Event | 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded. |
132540 | November 22 | Event | 1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Osw |