November 22
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.
1718 - Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of present-day North Carolina.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted; ash fallout reached 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.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson later took the oath of office 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 had captured the previous June, 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 British prime minister.
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.
2005 - Angela Merkel took power as Germany's first female chancellor.
2010 - Thousands 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.
2014 - A 12-year-old Black boy, Tamir Rice, was shot and mortally wounded by police outside a Cleveland recreation center after brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun. (A grand jury declined to indict either the patrolman who fired the fatal shot or a training officer.)
2017 - Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, was convicted of genocide and other crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and sentenced to life behind bars.
2021 - A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas to five more individuals, including former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as lawmakers deepened their probe of the rallies that preceded the deadly attack.
Birthdays
26 - Mackenzie Lintz (actress)
26 - Hailey Bieber (model)
26 - JuJu Smith-Schuster (football player)
27 - Katherine McNamara (actress)
33 - Candice Glover (singer)
34 - Jamie Campbell Bower (actor)
38 - Scarlett Johansson (actress)
39 - Tyler Hilton (actor/singer)
43 - Josh Cooke (actor)
55 - Boris Becker (tennis player)
55 - Mark Ruffalo (actor)
56 - Nicholas Rowe (actor)
58 - Stephen Geoffreys (actor)
59 - Brian Robbins (actor)
59 - Winsor Harmon (actor)
61 - Mariel Hemingway (actress)
64 - Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
66 - Richard Kind (actor)
72 - Greg Luzinski (baseball player)
79 - Billie Jean King (tennis player)
81 - Jesse Colin Young (singer)
81 - Tom Conti (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.
1917 - The National Hockey League was officially formed in Montreal.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-0.
1930 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1941 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-13.
1945 - Cleveland Rams end Jim Benton gains 303 yards in 28-21 win over Detroit Lions; NFL single game rushing record - stands for 40+ years.
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.
1958 - #4 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 40-7.
1966 - Florida quarterback Steve Spurrier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1969 - #16 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 44-14.
1975 - #7 Oklahoma defeats #2 Nebraska 35-10.
1980 - #9 Oklahoma defeats #4 Nebraska 21-17.
1986 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #5 Nebraska 20-17.
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 of the Edmonton Oilers becomes the 13th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1989 - Kirby Puckett signs a record $3 million per year contract with the Minnesota Twins.
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.
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.
2017 - Former sports doctor Larry Nassar, accused of molesting at least 125 girls and young women while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of sexual assault. (Nassar would be sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison on those charges.)
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.
1718 - Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of present-day North Carolina.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted; ash fallout reached 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.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson later took the oath of office 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 had captured the previous June, 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 British prime minister.
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.
2005 - Angela Merkel took power as Germany's first female chancellor.
2010 - Thousands 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.
2014 - A 12-year-old Black boy, Tamir Rice, was shot and mortally wounded by police outside a Cleveland recreation center after brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun. (A grand jury declined to indict either the patrolman who fired the fatal shot or a training officer.)
2017 - Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, was convicted of genocide and other crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and sentenced to life behind bars.
2021 - A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas to five more individuals, including former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as lawmakers deepened their probe of the rallies that preceded the deadly attack.
Birthdays
26 - Mackenzie Lintz (actress)
26 - Hailey Bieber (model)
26 - JuJu Smith-Schuster (football player)
27 - Katherine McNamara (actress)
33 - Candice Glover (singer)
34 - Jamie Campbell Bower (actor)
38 - Scarlett Johansson (actress)
39 - Tyler Hilton (actor/singer)
43 - Josh Cooke (actor)
55 - Boris Becker (tennis player)
55 - Mark Ruffalo (actor)
56 - Nicholas Rowe (actor)
58 - Stephen Geoffreys (actor)
59 - Brian Robbins (actor)
59 - Winsor Harmon (actor)
61 - Mariel Hemingway (actress)
64 - Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
66 - Richard Kind (actor)
72 - Greg Luzinski (baseball player)
79 - Billie Jean King (tennis player)
81 - Jesse Colin Young (singer)
81 - Tom Conti (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.
1917 - The National Hockey League was officially formed in Montreal.
1924 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-0.
1930 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1941 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-13.
1945 - Cleveland Rams end Jim Benton gains 303 yards in 28-21 win over Detroit Lions; NFL single game rushing record - stands for 40+ years.
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.
1958 - #4 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 40-7.
1966 - Florida quarterback Steve Spurrier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1969 - #16 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 44-14.
1975 - #7 Oklahoma defeats #2 Nebraska 35-10.
1980 - #9 Oklahoma defeats #4 Nebraska 21-17.
1986 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #5 Nebraska 20-17.
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 of the Edmonton Oilers becomes the 13th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1989 - Kirby Puckett signs a record $3 million per year contract with the Minnesota Twins.
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.
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.
2017 - Former sports doctor Larry Nassar, accused of molesting at least 125 girls and young women while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of sexual assault. (Nassar would be sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison on those charges.)
