November 22 in history — What Happened Today in History

UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.

Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.

The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.

A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, Alaska, killing all 52 aboard.

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.

Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.

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

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

The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

During The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922), 15 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day.

The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.

The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.

In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

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.

Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.

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

Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.

Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor

Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer

Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater

Natalie Achonwa, Canadian basketball player

Carles Gil, Spanish footballer

Vladislav Namestnikov, Russian ice hockey player

Tarik Black, American basketball player

Gab Pangilinan, Filipino actress and singer

Brock Osweiler, American football player

Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer and actor

Alden Ehrenreich, American actor

Candice Glover, American singer

Chris Smalling, English footballer

Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (born 1926)

Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (born 1931)

Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (born 1933)

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author (born 1926)

Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano (born 1921)

Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (born 1938)

Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (born 1931)

Jean Cione, American baseball player (born 1928)

Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (born 1914)

Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)

Verity Lambert, English television producer (born 1935)

Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (born 1917)

Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (born 1942)