What events happened on November 22?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Larimar Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇱🇧 Lebanon – Independence Day.
🇦🇱 Albania – Albanian Alphabet Day.
🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands – Arbor Day.
🇨🇦 Canada – National Housing Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Psychologists’ Day.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Prosecutors’ Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Humane Society Anniversary Day.
🇦🇲 Armenia – Bank Employees’ Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Justice Workers’ Day.
🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Teachers’ Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Saint Cecilia’s Day.
🇻🇪 Venezuela – Psychologists’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1574 – The Juan Fernandez Islands in Chile were discovered.
– 1699 – Peter I and Augustus agree on the Northern War.
– 1869 – The Cutty Sark is launched.
– 1906 – Stolypin’s agrarian reform begins.
– 1908 – The Congress of Monastery approves the Albanian alphabet.
– 1917 – The National Hockey League is founded in Canada.
– 1917 – Lenin’s appeal “To All Muslim Workers of Russia and the East” is published.
– 1936 – Abortion is allowed in the USSR.
– 1940 – World War II: The Greek army counterattacks in Albania and captures the city of Koritsa.
– 1942 – World War II: The German 6th Army is surrounded in the Battle of Stalingrad.
– 1943 – World War II: US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet at the Cairo Conference.
– 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
– 1946 – Ballpoint pens go on sale in England for the first time.
– 1956 – The XVI Olympic Games open in Melbourne.
– 1963 – US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Texas.
– 1967 – The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 242 on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
– 1974 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is granted observer status at the UN.
– 1975 – Juan Carlos I was proclaimed King of Spain.
– 1986 – Mike Tyson became the world boxing champion.
– 1989 – Lebanese President Rene Mouawad was assassinated in Beirut.
– 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned.
– 1993 – Armenia introduced its national currency, the dram.
– 2004 – The Zargaldak Revolution began in Ukraine.
– 2005 – Angela Merkel became the first female chancellor in German history.
– 2008 – A body of frozen water was discovered on Mars.
– 2012 – After an 8-day war between Israel and Palestine, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement.
-2015 – A landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar’s Kachin State killed 116 people and left nearly 100 missing.
