1956 : The 16th Olympic Games began in Melbourne, Australia.
1963 : Inauguration of the Thumba Indian Missile Launch Center.
1963 : US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas (Texas).
1968 : The Lok Sabha approved the proposal to change the name of Madras State to Tamil Nadu.
1968 : The Beatles published The Beatles (The White Album).
1971 : Pakistan violated the Indian air border and air conflict between the two countries begins.
1990 : Announcement of resignation by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
1991 : A tanker carrying flammable chemicals caught fire near Dahanu, killing 61 tribal people on the run.
1997 : Diana Hayden of India won the Miss World title.
1998 : Controversial writer Taslima Nasrin of Bangladesh surrendered in Dhaka court.
2000 : The US sanctioned on Pakistan and Iran.
2002 : Hundreds of people were killed in rioting in Nigeria to protest against the holding of the Miss World contest.
2006 : India and six other countries of the global consortium entered a historic agreement in Paris to set up a sun-like energy-efficient primary fusion reactor.
2013 : Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, 22, became the youngest chess world champion after defeating India’s Viswanathan Anand.
Famous Birthdays – November 22
1830: Jhalkaribai, a woman soldier who played an important role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
1864: Rukhmabai, an Indian physician, and feminist.
1877: John Gamper, founder of FC Barcelona.
1884: Sulaiman Nadvi, a Pakistani historian, writer, and scholar of Islam.
1890: Charles de Gaulle, French president, and general.
1892: Madeleine Slade, also known as Mirabehn, the leader of the Indian Independence Movement.
1899: Laxman Naik, a tribal civil rights activist of South Odisha in eastern India.
1913: Lakshmi Kant Jha, the eighth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
1926: Arthur Jones, founder of MedX Corporation.
1939: Mulayam Singh Yadav, an Indian politician, and the founder of the Samajwadi Party.
1948: Saroj Khan, an Indian dance choreographer.
1984: Scarlett Johansson, an American actress.
1962: Rajkumar Hirani, an Indian film director, and editor.
1968: Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP programming language.
1980: Sean Fanning, founder of Napster.
1990: Kartik Aaryan, an Indian actor.
Death Anniversaries – November 22
1902: Friedrich Krupp, a German businessman.
1944: Sir Arthur Eddington, an English astronomer.
1963: Aldous Huxley, English writer.
1963: John F. Kennedy, US President.
1980: Mae West, Hollywood actress, and singer.
2000: Dr. Hari Jeevan (H. J. Arnikar), an Indian Atomic chemist.
2001: Mary Kay Ash, an American businesswoman, and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
2002: Govindbhai Shroff, an Indian freedom fighter.
2012: P. Govind Pillai, Marxist Communist leader from India.
2016: M. Balamulkrishna, Indian singer.
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Historical Events - November 21
1877 : Thomas Edison announced the invention of the phonograph.
1906 : China prohibited opium trade.
1921 : Prince of Wales (Emperor Edward VIII) arrived at Bombay (now Mumbai) and Congress declared a nationwide strike.
1947 : Independent India’s first postal stamp was issued on this day with the picture of the National Flag of India.
1955 : Fight for a united Maharashtra.
1962 : Yashwantrao Chavan was appointed Minister of Defence of India.
1963 India’s space program began with rockets being released from the Thumba region of Kerala.
1962 : Indo-China War: A unilateral ceasefire was declared on November 19 by China, which invaded the Indian Territory.
1971 : Indian Air Force’s first encounter with Pakistani forces in the Battle of Garibpur in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1972 : South Korea adopted a new constitution.
1996 : The first World Television Forum took place and the United Nations General Assembly chose this day to mark World Television Day.
1999 : China launched its first unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhen.
2001 : United Nations proposed the formation of an interim administration in Afghanistan.
2002 : NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members of the organization.
2005 : Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed former Prime Minister Ratnasiri Vikramanayake as the new Prime Minister of the country.
2006 : India and China decided to increase shared cooperation in the field of civil nuclear energy.
Famous Birthdays – November 21
1694: Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
1872: Kesari Singh Barahath, an Indian freedom fighter, and Rajasthani language poet.
1910: Xian Chong Shu, Chinese writer.
1938: Helen, an Indian film actress, and dancer.
1941: Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel, an Indian politician.
1926: Premnath Malhotra, better known as Prem Nath, an Indian actor, and director.
1899: Harekrushna Mahatab, former chief minister of Orissa.
1933: Datta Samant, an Indian politician, and trade union leader.
1952: Rajendra Darda, Indian politician.
Death Anniversaries – November 21
1517: Sikandar Lodi, the Sultan of Delhi.
1908: Satyendranath Bose, an Indian revolutionary.
1916: Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria.
1969: Norman Alfred William Lindsay, an Australian artist.
1970: Sir Chandrasekhar Venkataraman (C. V. Raman), Nobel Laureate Indian physicist.
1996: Mohammed Abdus Salam, the only Pakistani physicist to win the Nobel Prize.
2000: Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, a British physician, geneticist, and lepidopterist.
2012: Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani militant, and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist militant organization.
2015: Ameen Faheem, Indian-Pakistani poet, and politician.