November 22
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search of a sea route to India.
1718 - Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the Pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted with ash fallout reaching as far as 48 miles away.
1906 - "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1935 - A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan during World War II.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath to become the nation's 36th president.
1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1975 - Juan Carlos was proclaimed king of Spain.
1977 - Regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1995 - Acting swiftly to boost the Balkan peace accord, the U.N. Security Council suspended economic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms embargo against the states of the former Yugoslavia.
1998 - "60 Minutes" aired video of Dr. Jack Kevorkian administering lethal drugs to a terminally ill patient.
2004 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev, denouncing Ukraine's presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of reform candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
2005 - Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was charged with supporting terrorism.
2005 - Ted Koppel hosted his final edition of ABC News' "Nightline."
2005 - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console went on sale.
2005 - Angela Merkel took power as Germany's first female chancellor.
2010 - Tousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, leaving some 350 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
2016 - President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to 21 groundbreaking actors, musicians, athletes and others; among those receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom were Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ellen DeGeneres and broadcaster Vin Scully.
2020 - President Donald Trump appealed a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania; the judge had rejected claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots. Michigan’s House speaker said Trump did not ask Michigan Republican lawmakers to “break the law” or “interfere” with the election when he met with seven GOP state legislators at the White House two days earlier.
Birthdays
21 - Baby Ariel (singer)
25 - Hailey Bieber (model)
25 - Mackenzie Lintz (actress)
25 - JuJu Smith-Schuster (football player)
26 - Katherine McNamara (actress)
32 - Alden Ehrenreich (actor)
32 - Candice Glover (singer)
33 - Jamie Campbell Bower (actor)
37 - Scarlett Johansson (actress)
38 - Tyler Hilton (actor/singer)
42 - Josh Cooke (actor)
54 - Boris Becker (tennis player)
54 - Mark Ruffalo (actor)
55 - Nicholas Rowe (actor)
60 - Mariel Hemingway (actress)
63 - Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
65 - Richard Kind (actor)
71 - Greg Luzinski (baseball player)
78 - Billie Jean King (tennis player)
80 - Tom Conti (actor)
86 - Michael Callan (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 22
1895 - Grinnell defeats Nebraska 24-0.
1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 12-0, finishes 8-0 on the season and champions of the Missouri Valley (3-0).
1917 - The National Hockey League was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-0.
1930 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1941 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-13.
1947 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 14-13.
1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.
1952 - #5 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 34-13. NU ends the season at 5-4-1 and in 3rd place in the Big 7 (3-2-1).
1958 - #4 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 40-7; NU ends the season at 3-7 and in 6th place in the Big 7 (1-5).
1959 - The Boston Patriots officially join the AFL.
1966 - Florida quarterback Steve Spurrier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1969 - #16 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 44-14 to win a share of the Big 8 title (6-1).
1975 - #7 Oklahoma defeats #2 Nebraska 35-10; NU finishes as co-Big 8 champion (6-1).
1980 - #9 Oklahoma defeats #4 Nebraska 21-17; NU finishes as Big 8 runner-up (6-1).
1986 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #5 Nebraska 20-17; NU ends in third place in the Big 8 (5-2).
1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to win the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the 13th player in NHL history to score 500 goals.
2003 - In Edmonton, Alberta, the Montreal Canadiens beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in the first NHL game to be played outside.
2008 - The Montreal Canadiens retire Patrick Roy's #33.
2011 - Baseball players and owners signed an agreement for a new labor contract, a deal making baseball the first North American professional major league to start blood tests for human growth hormone and expanding the playoffs to 10 teams by 2013.
2014 - Minnesota defeats #21 Nebraska 28-24.
2016 - It was announced that the NHL expansion team in Las Vegas would be named the Vegas Golden Knights.
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search of a sea route to India.
1718 - Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the Pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted with ash fallout reaching as far as 48 miles away.
1906 - "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1935 - A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan during World War II.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath to become the nation's 36th president.
1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1975 - Juan Carlos was proclaimed king of Spain.
1977 - Regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1995 - Acting swiftly to boost the Balkan peace accord, the U.N. Security Council suspended economic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms embargo against the states of the former Yugoslavia.
1998 - "60 Minutes" aired video of Dr. Jack Kevorkian administering lethal drugs to a terminally ill patient.
2004 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev, denouncing Ukraine's presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of reform candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
2005 - Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was charged with supporting terrorism.
2005 - Ted Koppel hosted his final edition of ABC News' "Nightline."
2005 - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console went on sale.
2005 - Angela Merkel took power as Germany's first female chancellor.
2010 - Tousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, leaving some 350 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
2016 - President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to 21 groundbreaking actors, musicians, athletes and others; among those receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom were Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ellen DeGeneres and broadcaster Vin Scully.
2020 - President Donald Trump appealed a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania; the judge had rejected claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots. Michigan’s House speaker said Trump did not ask Michigan Republican lawmakers to “break the law” or “interfere” with the election when he met with seven GOP state legislators at the White House two days earlier.
Birthdays
21 - Baby Ariel (singer)
25 - Hailey Bieber (model)
25 - Mackenzie Lintz (actress)
25 - JuJu Smith-Schuster (football player)
26 - Katherine McNamara (actress)
32 - Alden Ehrenreich (actor)
32 - Candice Glover (singer)
33 - Jamie Campbell Bower (actor)
37 - Scarlett Johansson (actress)
38 - Tyler Hilton (actor/singer)
42 - Josh Cooke (actor)
54 - Boris Becker (tennis player)
54 - Mark Ruffalo (actor)
55 - Nicholas Rowe (actor)
60 - Mariel Hemingway (actress)
63 - Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
65 - Richard Kind (actor)
71 - Greg Luzinski (baseball player)
78 - Billie Jean King (tennis player)
80 - Tom Conti (actor)
86 - Michael Callan (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 22
1895 - Grinnell defeats Nebraska 24-0.
1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1913 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 12-0, finishes 8-0 on the season and champions of the Missouri Valley (3-0).
1917 - The National Hockey League was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-0.
1930 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1941 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-13.
1947 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 14-13.
1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.
1952 - #5 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 34-13. NU ends the season at 5-4-1 and in 3rd place in the Big 7 (3-2-1).
1958 - #4 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 40-7; NU ends the season at 3-7 and in 6th place in the Big 7 (1-5).
1959 - The Boston Patriots officially join the AFL.
1966 - Florida quarterback Steve Spurrier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1969 - #16 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 44-14 to win a share of the Big 8 title (6-1).
1975 - #7 Oklahoma defeats #2 Nebraska 35-10; NU finishes as co-Big 8 champion (6-1).
1980 - #9 Oklahoma defeats #4 Nebraska 21-17; NU finishes as Big 8 runner-up (6-1).
1986 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #5 Nebraska 20-17; NU ends in third place in the Big 8 (5-2).
1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to win the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the 13th player in NHL history to score 500 goals.
2003 - In Edmonton, Alberta, the Montreal Canadiens beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in the first NHL game to be played outside.
2008 - The Montreal Canadiens retire Patrick Roy's #33.
2011 - Baseball players and owners signed an agreement for a new labor contract, a deal making baseball the first North American professional major league to start blood tests for human growth hormone and expanding the playoffs to 10 teams by 2013.
2014 - Minnesota defeats #21 Nebraska 28-24.
2016 - It was announced that the NHL expansion team in Las Vegas would be named the Vegas Golden Knights.
