22nd November

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1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1808 - Birth of Thomas Cook, the English travel agent. He began his pioneering tour business, Thomas Cook & Son, when he organized the first publicly advertised railway excursion to a temperance meeting on 5 July 1841.
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
1946 - The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by a British company.
1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2003 England's rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final in Sydney.
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

Births
1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)
1819 – George Eliot, English author (d. 1880)
1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (d. 1970)
1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
1913 – Benjamin Britten, English composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1976)
1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor
1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer
1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress and singer
1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter

Deaths
1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
1916 – Jack London, American journalist and author (b. 1876)
1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
1963 – John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963 – C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
1980 – Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
1993 – Anthony Burgess, English author and composer (b. 1917)
2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer - producer of Doctor Who (b. 1935)

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