November 22
1497 - Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India.
1718 - Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America.
1842 - Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted; ash fallout reached as far as 48 miles away.
1906 - "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1935 - A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan during World War II.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson would later take the oath of office to become the nation's 36th president. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
2005 - Angela Merkel took office as Germany's first female chancellor.
2010 - A panicked crush at a festival in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh left some 350 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
2017 - Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, was convicted of genocide and other crimes by the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and sentenced to life behind bars.
Birthdays
23 - Molly Jackson (actress)
24 - Auli'i Cravalho (actress)
28 - JuJu Smith-Schuster (football player)
28 - Hailey Bieber (model)
29 - Katherine McNamara (actress)
30 - Dacre Montgomery (actor)
31 - Adele Exarchopoulos (actress)
35 - Alden Ehrenreich (actor)
36 - Jamie Campbell Bower (actor)
40 - Scarlett Johansson (actress)
57 - Boris Becker (tennis player)
57 - Mark Ruffalo (actor)
59 - Mads Mikkelsen (actor)
66 - Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
68 - Richard Kind (actor)
74 - Steven Van Zandt (actor/singer)
81 - Billie Jean King (tennis player)
82 - Guion Bluford (astronaut)
83 - Jacques Laperriere (hockey player)
84 - Terry Gilliam (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 22
1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal.
1945 - Cleveland Rams end Jim Benton gains 303 yards in 28-21 win over Detroit Lions; NFL single game rushing record - stands for 40+ years.
1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.
1966 - Florida quarterback Steve Spurrier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers becomes the 13th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1986 - 20-year-old Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history, stopping WBC titleholder Trevor Berbick in the second round of their championship bout in Las Vegas.
1989 - Minnesota Twins outfielder Kirby Puckett signs a record contract worth $3 million per year.
1991 - The New York Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for a two-year contract extension.
2003 - In Edmonton, Alberta, the Montreal Canadiens beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in the first NHL game to be played outside.
2008 - The Montreal Canadiens retire Patrick Roy's #33.
2016 - It was announced that the NHL expansion team in Las Vegas would be named the Vegas Golden Knights.
