November 22 is the 327th day of the year
National Cranberry Relish Day
A barrel of cranberries weighs 100 pounds. Give or take a few, there are about 450 cranberries in a pound and 4,400 cranberries in one gallon of juice.
1542 – Spain delegates “New Laws” against slavery in America. From Wikipedia:
The New Laws consisted of many regulations on the encomienda system, (in which the stronger people protected the weakest in exchange for a service) including its solemn prohibition of the enslavement of the Indians and provisions for the gradual abolition of the encomienda system. The New Laws stated that the natives would be considered free persons, and the encomenderos could no longer demand their labor. The natives were only required to pay the encomenderos tribute, and, if they worked, they would be paid wages in exchange for their labor. The laws also prohibited the sending of indigenous people to work in the mines unless it was absolutely necessary, and required that they be taxed fairly and treated well. It ordered public officials or clergy with encomienda grants to return them immediately to the Crown, and stated that encomienda grants would not be hereditarily passed on, but would be canceled at the death of the individual encomenderos.
In 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as “Blackbeard”) was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
Former First Lady Abigail Smith Adams was born on November 22, 1744. She was the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams.
Publication of Federalist Paper #10: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection written by James Madison. “Federalist No. 10 is among the most highly regarded of all American political writings.” Madison discusses the nature of man as a factor in forming a government, ie, balancing the rights of the individual with the rights of a community inevitably leads to factions which he describes as “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed (antagonistic) to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” He says “the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”
Birthday of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (November 22, 1819). English novelist famous for “Silas Marner”, “Mill on the Floss” and others.
“Bolero” by Maurice Ravel debuted in Paris in 1928. Revel never dreamed that one day Torvill & Dean would use his music at the 1984 Olympics for the best ice-dancing routine ever!
“Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” was first heard on Eddie Cantor’s show on November 22, 1934. It became an instant hit with orders for 500,000 copies of sheet music and more than 30,000 records sold within 24 hours.
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to townHe’s making a list
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming to townHe sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows when you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
1963 – Death of John F. Kennedy,thirty-fifth President of the United States. He was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was 46 years old. Texas Governor John Connally was seriously wounded. Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of the United States. See Wikipedia re assassination. It was one of those events (like the attacks of 9-11) that those who were alive at the time can sharply remember.
1995 – Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
Birthday of Jean Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire), (November 21, 1694) French Enlightenment author, historian and philosopher. Author of “Candide”. Known for his wit and attacks on the established Church. He was a key figure in the European intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment.
In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia took the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
Former First Lady Florence Harding died of renal failure on November 21, 1924, at Marion, Ohio, U.S., wife of
1942 – Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuted in “Tale of Two Kitties”
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Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was born (November 20, 1917) Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. in North Wilkesboro, N.C. His parents were Cornelius Calvin Sale Sr. and Ada Mae Kirdy. When he was ten months old, his mother died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic. In accordance with his mother’s wishes, his father dispersed their children among relatives. Calvin Jr. was adopted by his aunt and uncle, Titus and Vlurma Byrd, who changed his name to Robert Carlyle Byrd and raised him in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia. Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959. He served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. In the 1940s, Byrd organized and led a local Klan chapter as its Exalted Cyclops, but he wasn’t a Grand Wizard as his often reported.
Birthday of Robert F Kennedy (November 20, 1925), U.S. Attorney General and Senator from New York. Brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was a Democratic candidate for president in 1968 when he was assassinated.
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Birthday of Louis Jacques Daguerre (November 18, 1789), French inventor of the “daguerreotype” method of producing permanent pictures.
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Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England died on November 17, 1558 and was succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth I of England. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
1934 
Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1849 – A Russian court sentenced writer Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group. At the last moment, a note from Tsar Nicholas I was delivered to the scene of the firing squad, commuting the sentence to ten years’ hard labor in Siberia. Dostoevsky’s seizures, which may have started in 1839, increased in frequency in Siberia, and he was diagnosed with epilepsy. On his release, he was forced to serve as a soldier, before being discharged on grounds of ill health. He survived until 1881. Dostoevsky was the author of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.
In 2010, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel was convicted on 11 of 13 charges related to financial misconduct, prompting fellow lawmakers to censure the 80-year-old New York Democrat. Despite the ethics violations, Rangel was re-elected in 2012 and 2014.
In 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Originally called “El Capitán” by Spanish explorers, the mountain was renamed Pike’s Peak. The Arapaho name is heey-otoyoo’ (“long mountain”).)
In Washington, D.C. on November 15, 1939, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the 
1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”.
Birthday of Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765), American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat; the first was called North River Steamboat. In 1807 that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers, from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles, in 62 hours.
Death of Georg Wilhelm Hegel (Nov 14, 1831), German philosopher, and a major figure in German Idealism. He achieved recognition in his day and—while primarily influential in the continental tradition of philosophy—has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. His dying words were “Only one man understood me and he didn’t understand.”
Birthday of Claude Monet (November 14, 1840), French landscape painter. In almost every sense he was the founder of French Impressionist painting, the term itself coming from one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise. His paintings can be viewed at 
In 1889, pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) began a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in 72 days.
Birthday of Mamie Eisenhower (November 14, 1896), wife of 
Birthday of King Charles II (November 14, 1948), (Charles Philip Arthur George), is the eldest child and heir of Queen Elizabeth II. He married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 and they had two sons: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (born 1982), and Prince Harry (born 1984). In 1996, the couple divorced. Diana died in a car crash the following year. In 2005, Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, who now uses the title Queen Consort.
Birthday of Condoleezza Rice, (November 14, 1954) American political scientist and diplomat; former Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration.
Birthday of Curt Schilling, (November 14,1966), baseball pitcher. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993 and won World Series championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox.
On November 13, 1553, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, were accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary I. 
Birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson (November 13, 1850), Scottish novelist and poet famous for writing “Treasure Island”, “A Child’s Garden of Verses”, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and many more. Treasure Island is in the public domain and is available at our other website