November 22

1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope during his first voyage from Europe to reach India

1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands off the coast of Chile that, for reasons lost to historians, are now known as the Juan Fernández Islands.

1718 –Edward “Blackbeard” Teach aboard Adventure is killed in battle off the coast of North Carolina by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard commanding HMAV Jane.

1842 – Mount St. Helens in then British Oregon Country, erupts, covering area as far as Vancouver and the Dalles with ash

1858 – Denver Colorado, is founded.

1913 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last Shogun of Imperial Japan, who was deposed by Emperor Meiji, dies in Tokyo.

1935 – Pan American Airways China Clipper, a Martin M-130 Ocean Transport flying boat, inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

1942 – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army at Stalingrad is surrounded by Soviet Forces.

1943 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

1955 – The Soviet Union detonates it’s first thermonuclear bomb, RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov over Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan

1963 – In Dallas, Texas, President Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor Connally is seriously wounded by rifle fire. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President

1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1988 – The prototype B-2 Spirit bomber is presented to public viewing in Palmdale, California

1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature length film created completely using CGI – computer generated imagery.

2003 – Shortly after takeoff from Baghdad International Airport, a DHL Express Airbus A300 cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.

2019 – Walmart expands it grocery delivery and pickup service into southwest Missouri.

2022 – A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves 7 workers dead, including the shooter, and 4 others injured.