On This Day
What Happened on November 22 in History
8 events that happened on November 22, oldest first. Every entry is written in our own words and links to its source.
Colonial America and the Revolution
1718 (Old Style date)
The pirate Blackbeard was killed in a battle off North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Edward Teach died fighting a British naval force sent from Virginia under Lieutenant Robert Maynard. His death removed one of the most feared pirates of the era.
Source: history.com; history.com
The Early 1900s and the World Wars
1943
The Allied wartime summit known as the Cairo Conference opened in Egypt.
The Allied leaders gathered in Egypt for wartime talks. The Cairo meetings were followed days later by the first meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Tehran.
Source: history.state.gov
The Cold War
1963
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
Kennedy was shot in an open car as he traveled through downtown Dallas with his wife and Texas Governor John Connally. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
Source: history.com; archive.nytimes.com
1967
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 on the Middle East.
The Council approved a British draft after months of diplomacy that followed the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967. The vote was unanimous.
Source: history.state.gov
1968
A Star Trek episode aired with a kiss between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura.
The episode "Plato's Stepchildren" paired William Shatner with Nichelle Nichols, a Black actress. It was widely seen as a landmark moment for television, a year after the Loving v. Virginia ruling.
Source: history.com
1988
The B-2 stealth bomber was shown to the public for the first time.
The Northrop aircraft, built in secrecy for years, was unveiled at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. It had not yet made its first test flight.
Source: history.com; af.mil
The Modern Era
1994
Two planes collided on a runway at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
TWA Flight 427, departing for Denver, hit a Cessna 441 whose pilot had mistakenly entered the runway. The two people on the Cessna were killed, and eight of the 140 people aboard the jet had minor injuries.
Source: ntsb.gov
2005
Angela Merkel was sworn in as Germany's first female chancellor.
Raised in East Germany, she earned a doctorate in quantum chemistry and worked as a research scientist before entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She became one of the most powerful figures in European politics.
Source: history.com