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Events on November 22

• 1220 Frederick II. is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in Rome by Pope Honorius III.
• 1497 Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in search of a sea route to India.
• 1928 Maurice Ravel's Boléro is premiered at the Paris Opera.
• 1942 World War II: During the Battle of Stalingrad, the two pincers of the Red Army meet at the Don, thereby encircling the German 6th Army under General Friedrich Paulus west of Stalingrad.
• 1949 The Allied High Commissioners and Konrad Adenauer sign the Petersberg Agreement, which extends the powers of the German federal government beyond the Occupation Statute that had entered into force only a few weeks earlier.
• 1959 The first episode of Unser Sandmännchen is broadcast on East German television.
• 1963 The President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is killed in an assassination in Dallas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the new president that afternoon.
• 1977 The Concorde takes off from Paris for its first supersonic flight to New York City.
• 1983 The Bundestag approves the deployment of new medium-range missiles of the Pershing 2 type in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1989 At the initiative of the Democratic Now citizens' movement, opposition groups and the SED leadership agree on the establishment of the Central Round Table.
• 2005 Angela Merkel (CDU) is elected by the Bundestag as the first woman in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany to serve as Federal Chancellor.
• 2013 The Xbox One game console, developed by Microsoft as the successor to the Xbox 360, is released in Europe.

Born on November 22

• 1850 Georg Dehio, German art historian
• 1890 Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician
• 1901 Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer
• 1913 Benjamin Britten, British composer
• 1940 Frank Duval, German musician and composer
• 1940 Terry Gilliam, American actor, screenwriter and director
• 1950 Steven Van Zandt, American musician
• 1951 Michael Brandner, German actor
• 1971 Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen, Danish handball player and coach
• 1993 Thomas Dreßen, German ski racer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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