132901 | November 22 | Death | 2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947) |
132902 | November 22 | Death | 2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920) |
132903 | November 22 | Death | 2014 – Tamir Rice, American shooting victim (b. 2002) |
132904 | November 22 | Holiday and observance | Christian Feast Day:Saint CeciliaSaint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia)Saint HerbertNovember 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
132905 | November 22 | Holiday and observance | Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians) |
132906 | November 22 | Holiday and observance | Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States) |
132907 | November 22 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day (Lebanon), celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943. |
132908 | November 23 | Event | 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. |
132909 | November 23 | Event | 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain. |
132910 | November 23 | Event | 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. |
132911 | November 23 | Event | 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. |
132912 | November 23 | Event | 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery. |
132913 | November 23 | Event | 1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. |
132914 | November 23 | Event | 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. |
132915 | November 23 | Event | 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies. |
132916 | November 23 | Event | 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela. |
132917 | November 23 | Event | 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House. |
132918 | November 23 | Event | 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops. |
132919 | November 23 | Event | 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody. |
132920 | November 23 | Event | 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. |
132921 | November 23 | Event | 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. |
132922 | November 23 | Event | 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him. |
132923 | November 23 | Event | 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. |
132924 | November 23 | Event | 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. |
132925 | November 23 | Event | 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
132926 | November 23 | Event | 1924 – Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.[cita |
132927 | November 23 | Event | 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. |
132928 | November 23 | Event | 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success. |
132929 | November 23 | Event | 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. |
132930 | November 23 | Event | 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. |