WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. NOVEMBER
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After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. (22. November 498)

The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. (22. November 845)

Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. (22. November 1307)

Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. (22. November 1574)

Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. (22. November 1635)

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. (22. November 1718)

War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek. (22. November 1812)

Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. (22. November 1837)

Denver, Colorado, is founded. (22. November 1858)

American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia. (22. November 1864)

In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today. (22. November 1869)

The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. (22. November 1908)

The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris. (22. November 1928)

The China Clipper, the first plane to offer commercial transpacific air service, takes off from Alameda, California, for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later. (22. November 1935)

World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa. (22. November 1940)

World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. (22. November 1942)

World War II: Cairo Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. (22. November 1943)

Lebanon gains independence from France. (22. November 1943)

The Humane Society of the United States is founded. (22. November 1954)

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. (22. November 1963)