It happened on this day, November 22
Events:
1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile.
1914 – The Iraqi city of Basra falls to the British during World War I, who enter with the intention of protecting oil pipelines.
1924 – A British warning is sent to the government of Saad Zaghloul after the assassination of the Egyptian army commander and governor of Sudan, Sir Lee Stack, that an apology should be made, necessary compensation provided and forces Egyptians should be withdrawn from Sudan. The Egyptian government accepted these demands, except for what concerned Sudan, and when the British insisted on their demands, he resigned against this.
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France and Bechara El-Khoury assumes the presidency.
1963 – US President John Kennedy is assassinated by snipers during his visit to Dallas.
1967 – Publication of UN Security Council Resolution No. 242 after the 1967 war. The resolution stipulated the withdrawal of Israel from the lands it occupied following this war, respect for the sovereignty of countries in the region on their lands and freedom of movement. navigation of international corridors, a solution to the refugee problem and the creation of demilitarized zones.
1975 – Juan Carlos is enthroned as King of Spain after the death of dictator Francisco Franco and based on his will, thus restoring the monarchy to Spain.
1989 – The President of the Lebanese Republic, René Moawad, is assassinated by a car bomb in a street in Beirut.
1990 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, nicknamed the Iron Lady, presents her resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.
✴️ US President George Bush visits US forces stationed in Saudi Arabia in preparation for the Second Gulf War.
2003 – Opponents of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze storm Parliament, demanding his resignation.
2004 – Start of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine following the questionable results of the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel is elected German Chancellor, making her the first woman to hold the position.
2010 – The Knesset approves a bill requiring Israeli governments to submit to a popular referendum any withdrawals they wish to make as part of a peace deal from East Jerusalem and the occupied Golan Heights. The Palestinian National Authority considers this law a parody of international law. .
✴️ Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh opens the twentieth session of the Gulf Football Cup organized in the city of Aden, which Yemen is hosting for the first time.
2011- Opening of the work of the National Constituent Assembly in Tunisia, authorized to draft a new constitution for the country. During the opening session, Mustafa Ben Jaafar was elected President of the Council.
✴️ Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi announces that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has accepted the resignation of the government of Essam Sharaf and entrusted it with the conduct of affairs until the formation of a new government.
2012 – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issues a new constitutional declaration in which he reinforces all of the president's decisions since assuming the presidency. He also issued a decree preventing the dissolution of the Shura Council by judicial decision. He also strengthened Egypt's Constituent Assembly. Constitution of any dissolution decision by judicial decision. He also issued a decree appointing the attorney general for a period of four years.
2013 – Magnus Carlsen of Norway becomes the twentieth World Chess Championship champion after his victory against the 2012 champion, Indian Vishvanathan Anand, in the 2013 World Chess Championship held in Chennai, India.
2016 – More than 200 fires broke out in various locations in Israel's forests.
2017 – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Din Hariri returns to Lebanon and announces his delay in presenting his resignation after having presented it 18 days ago.
2022 – A historic victory for the Saudi national team against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup.
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Births:
1643 – Robert de La Salle, French explorer.
1808 – Thomas Cook, British businessman.
1819 – George Eliot, English novelist.
1852 – Paul de Constant, French politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909.
1869 – André Gide, French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
1877 – Juan Gamper, Swiss businessman and footballer.
1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman military commander
1890 – Charles de Gaulle, president of France.
1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish musician.
1904 – Louis Nel, French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970.
1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aircraft manufacturer.
1912 – Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz, Saudi religious scholar.
1913 – Fateen Abdel Wahab, Egyptian director.
1917 – Sir Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963.
1919 – Salem Hanna Khamis, Palestinian mathematician.
1926 – Geraldine Page, American actress.
1930- Victor Nuremberg, Luxembourg footballer.
Hasaballah Al-Kafrawi, Egyptian politician and former Minister of Housing.
1934 – Ahmed Saif Al-Islam, Egyptian lawyer.
1944 – Ali Al-Kourani, Lebanese Shiite cleric.
1948 – Radomir Antic, Serbian footballer and coach.
1967- Mark Ruffalo, American actor.
Bors Becker, German tennis player.
1968- Azza Bahaa, Egyptian actress.
Sabry Fawaz, Egyptian actor.
1969- Bernadette Hadib, Lebanese actress.
Bennu Yildirimlar, Turkish actress.
1970 – Yasser Al-Masry, Jordanian actor.
1971 – Amjad Touma, Syrian actor.
1973 – Abdel Fattah Bouakaz, Algerian journalist and poet.
1975 – Junko Minagawa, Japanese actress.
1976- Wael Jassar, Lebanese singer.
Torsten Frings, German footballer.
1980 – Yasser Al-Dosari, Saudi Quran reciter.
1981 – Severin Gantsartsik, Polish footballer.
1982- Yakubu Igbeni, Nigerian footballer.
Abdullah Al-Talihi, Kuwaiti kickboxer, host and actor.
Amr Salama, Egyptian director.
1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer.
1984- Ibrahim Hazazi, Saudi footballer.
Scarlett Johansson, American actress.
1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer.
1986 – Aiten Amer, Egyptian actress.
1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer.
1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer.
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Death:
1207 – Abu Imran al-Murtali, Andalusian Almohad mystic, poet, interpreter and hadith specialist.
1617 – Sultan Ahmed I, fourteenth Ottoman sultan.
1718 – Edward Teach, English pirate known as “Blackbeard”.
1916 – Jack London, American writer.
1941 – Werner Mölders, German soldier.
1944 – Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer and physicist.
1963- John Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.
Aldous Huxley, English writer.
Clive Lewis, Irish writer.
1981 – Hans Krebs, British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1953.
1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor.
1989 – René Moawad, ninth president of the Lebanese Republic.
2010 – Mustafa El Sallab, Egyptian politician and businessman.
2011 – Svetlana Stalin, daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Holidays and Occasions:
Independence Day in Lebanon.
