22nd November

EVENTS:

• 1858 – Denver, Colorado, is founded.
• 1931 – Al-Mina’a SC was founded in Iraq.
• 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• 1995 – A 7.3 MW earthquake strikes Gulf of Aqaba between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia, the largest tectonic event in the area for many decades.
• 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
• 2014 – While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.
• 2022 – A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.

BIRTHS:

• 1830 – Jhalkaribai, Indian soldier (d. 1858)
• 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d’Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1869 – André Gide, French author and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Alfred Bowerman, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
• 1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (d. 1953)
• 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence
• 1950 – Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer
• 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
• 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author
• 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
• 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer programmer, created PHP
• 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
• 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer
• 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
• 1999 –Dwight McNeil, English footballer

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:

• Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)
• Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States)
• Independence Day (Lebanon), celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.