Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 22

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 * 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against the island's indigenous peoples.
 * 1718 – The pirate Blackbeard (pictured) was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
 * 1873 – The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
 * 1910 – The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.
 * 1963 – John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One as the 36th President of the United States.
 * 1967 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
 * 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands.
 * 1975 – Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
 * 1988 – The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
 * 1995 – Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.
 * Born/died this day: | As-Salih Ayyub|d|1249| John Alsop|d|1794| Johann Christian Reil|d|1813| George Eliot|b|1819| Katherine Plunket|b|1820| Serranus Clinton Hastings|b|1814| Frank Matcham|b|1854| Émile Lemoine|b|1840|Mary Boykin Chesnut|d|1886| Mick Shann|b|1917| Edwin Thumboo|b|1933| Baby Huwae|b|1939| Chip Berlet|b|1949| Aldous Huxley|d|1963| Mark Ruffalo|b|1967| Marjane Satrapi|b|1969| Hans Adolf Krebs |d|1981| Scarlett Johansson|b|1984| Asima Chatterjee|d|2006|