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On this day...
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1842 Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupts
1884 T. Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1917 National Hockey Association disbands
1922 Library Ave in the Bronx named
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris
1930 First US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of
mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight
1943 FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1957 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
1959 Boston Patriots enter the AFL
1959 NY Titans (AFL) First draft choice (George Izo, QB, Notre Dame)
1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles
1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land
1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album
1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
1981 SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Oakland (55-21)
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon
1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not
rehired
1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
Birthdays which occurred on November 22nd:
1511 Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach
1819 George Eliot, England, novelist (Silas Marner)
1856 Heber J. Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th president of Mormon church
1857 George Gissing, English writer (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 John Nance Garner, (D) 32nd VP (1933-41)
1888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
1890 Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France, President of France (1958-69)
1898 Wiley Post, Grand Plain TX, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)
1899 Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Indiana, actor/songwriter (Stardust)
1904 Roland Winters, Boston, actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers)
1905 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1906 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon)
1912 Doris Duke, multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress)
1913 Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer (Beggar's Opera)
1921 Rodney Dangerfield, Babylon NY, comedian (Caddyshack, Back to School)
1922 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1924 Geraldine Page, Kirksville MO (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
1925 Gunther Schuller, NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation)
1928 Juno Stover-Irwin, US, diver (Olympic-silver-1956)
1928 Pat Smythe, England, equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1930 Owen K. Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9)
1932 Robert Vaughn, actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy)
1935 Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1935 Michael Callan, Philadelphia, actor (Peter-Occasional Wife)
1939 Allen Garfield, Newark, actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II)
1940 Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy writer-animator (Monty Python)
1941 Tom Conti, Scotland, actor
1943 Billie Jean King,
1950 Greg Luzinski, baseball player (Phillies, White Sox)
1950 Little Steven, rocker (Springsteen)
1950 Tina Weymouth, rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was)
1957 Sharon Bailey, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable)
1958 Jamie Lee Curtis, Los Angeles, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween)
1960 Eg White, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1961 Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Idaho, actress (Manhattan, Personal Best)
1964 Stephen Geoffreys, Cincinatti Oh, actor (Faternity Vacation)
1966 Brian Robbins, Brooklyn NY, actor (Eric-Head of the Class)
1966 Nicholas Rowe, London England, actor (Young Sherlock Holmes)
1967 Boris Becker, West Germany, tennis player
Deaths which occurred on November 22nd:
1718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, dies off Virginia coast
1825 Ann Bailey, pioneer
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel)
1943 Lorenz Hart, lyricist, dies in NY
1963 Aldous Huxley, English novelist. ("Brave New World" )
1963 C.S.Lewis, English novelist. ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.")
1963 John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, assassinated
1980 Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk), dies at 77
1980 Mae West, dies at her Hollywood residence at 87
1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr. Arsenic), dies at 80
1983 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 58
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