Today in History for 22nd November 2025

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Historical Events

1908 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1971 - A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh
1974 - Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1975 - Juan Carlos I is proclaimed King of Spain as the monarchy is restored after 36 years of dictatorship

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Famous Birthdays

1428 - Richard Neville [16th Earl of Warwick], English nobleman and military commander known as 'Warwick the Kingmaker', born in Norwich, England (d. 1471)
1838 - José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, born in Portuguese Macau (d. 1903)
1924 - Axel Borup-Jørgensen, composer (Nordisk Sommerpastorale; Thalatta! Thalatta!), born in Hjørring, Denmark (d. 2012)
1950 - Art Sullivan [Marc Liénart van Lidth de Jeude], Belgian pop singer-songwriter ("Un océan de caresses"), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2019)
1955 - James Edwards, American basketball center (NBA C'ship 1989, 90 Detroit Pistons, 1996 Chicago Bulls), born in Seattle, Washington

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Famous Deaths

1946 - Bertie Rose-Innes, cricketer (South Africa's Test), dies
1988 - Erich Fried, Austrian-British writer, dies at 67
1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (Mr Spock's dad Sarek - Star Trek), dies of cancer at 72
2011 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (Bill Evans Trio; Keith Jarrett), composer, and bandleader (Electric Bebop Band), dies of bone marrow cancer at 80
2017 - George Avakian, Armenian-American jazz historian, record producer, and label executive who pioneered jazz album and retrospective collection formats, dies at 98

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