Geraldine Page who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1985 film “A Trip To Bountiful” was born on November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri.

Her first stage performance in New York was a play that was developed by high school students in Los Angeles.

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“22 November 1950. Thanksgiving dinner in 5th Marines area, Hagaru-ri.”  

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“Abigail Adams made herself supremely essential to the two great men forever connected with her name, her husband and her eldest son. John Adams found in her death, though he was then eighty-three years of age, the severest affliction which had ever befallen him. She had gone through the vicissitudes of more than half a century in his company, had sympathized with him in all his aspirations, and had cheered him in his greatest trials. Her character had adapted itself to his in such a manner as to improve the good qualities of both. Her eldest son, John Quincy Adams, returned home after eight years’ diplomatic service abroad and became Secretary of State under President Monroe. It was, no doubt, a great gratification to his mother to have a son whose uprightness of character and abilities as a statesman were fully and freely recognized; and had her life been spared but a few years longer she would have seen the son, as she had seen the father, elevated to the Presidency of the United States. Though John Quincy Adams was at the time of his mother’s death a famous man in mature years, her loss came to him as a great shock, and he wrote of it that he scarcely knew how to live in the world with his mother absent from it. She had with rare and beautiful fidelity impressed him not only with her mother love but with her firm religious convictions and the spiritual quality of her great soul.”

Abigail Smith Adams was born on November 22, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

From: The religious life of famous Americans by Louis Albert Banks, published in 1904 https://archive.org/details/religiouslifeoff00bank/page/207/mode/2up Source says not in copyright

Image: Sketch of Abigail Adams in her early 20s about the time she married John Adams via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On November 22, 1718 notorious pirate Edward Teach – called “Blackbeard”, met his grisly end off Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Shown here is Blackbeard battling Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy, who reported that it took 5 shots and 20 slashes to bring the pirate down.

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René Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French Explorer of present day Canada and the United States, was born on November 22, 1643 in Normandy.

In 1682 La Salle claimed and named Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV.

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John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963.

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The China Clipper flying boat began regular service with Pan American Airways on November 22, 1935. The Clipper flew from Alameda, California and landed at Manila seven days later, delivering 110,000 pieces of airmail. Fred Noonan navigated the initial run, who would accompany Amelia Earhart on her final flight in 1937.

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A photo of the 2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

11/22/2018

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American musician, Hoagy Carmichael, who composed the music for the song “Georgia on My Mind,” was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on November 22, 1899

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The earliest date in which Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. can occur is November 22nd. 

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The earliest date in which Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. can occur is November 22nd. 

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Jacob Rodney Cohen (Rodney Dangerfield) was born on November 22, 1921 in Deer Park, New York.

He started writing comedy for other comedians when he was only fifteen years old.

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“When the Union needs my poor support, in peace or in war, I induge the hope that I shall not fail in the performance of any duty which may be required me.”

A quote from Henry Wilson who was a Civil War veteran and the 18th Vice President of the United States who died from a stroke on November 22, 1875 while in office. 

After his death Ulysses S. Grant remained without a VP until his final term ended in 1877. 

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