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• ... that Silent film star Clara Williams (pictured), known for her "forty famous frocks", appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1918?
• ... that the Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara is one of the Solosmasthana, the 16 religious sites in Sri Lanka that Buddhists believe to have been hallowed by visits of Gautama Buddha?
• ... that over 19 days, the magnitude-6 1703 Apennine earthquakes progressed southwards 36 km and killed an estimated 10,000 people?
• ... that Adolf Bniński, Polish presidential candidate in 1926, was the Government Delegate of the Polish Underground State for the Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany?
• ... that the 58-foot (18 m) motor yacht Sundowner, manned by Charles Lightoller, his son Roger, and a Sea Scout called Gerald, evacuated 130 men from Dunkirk?
• ... that C. Gardner Sullivan, once named among the ten greatest contributors to the motion picture industry, has four films in the U.S. National Film Registry?
• ... that Elia Kazan's 1947 film Boomerang!, about a murder Defendant whose innocence was proven by the prosecutor, was based on the true story of Harold Israel?
• ... that George Osbaldeston was twice Master of the Quorn?
  
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• The discovery of the Phoebe ring of Saturn, hundreds of times larger than the planet's diameter, is announced.
• Charles K. Kao (pictured), for his work on Optic fibers, along with Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, for their work on Charge-coupled devices, win the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall wins the 2009 Man Booker Prize.
• Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak win the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how Chromosomes are protected by Telomeres and the Enzyme Telomerase.
• The Panhellenic Socialist Movement led by George Papandreou wins the 2009 Greek legislative elections.
• Former Japanese Minister of Finance Shōichi Nakagawa is found dead in his apartment in Tokyo.
• The twenty-eighth amendment of the Constitution of Ireland is passed in a referendum, enabling the country to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon.
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November 22: Independence Day in Lebanon (1943)

• 1831 – After a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silkworkers seized Lyon, France, beginning the First Canut Revolt.
• 1869 – The Cutty Sark, one of the last sailing clippers ever to be built, was launched at Dumbarton in Scotland.
• 1887 – The first College lacrosse game was played between New York University and Manhattan College.
• 1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States aboard Air Force One hours after John F. Kennedy (pictured) was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
• 1988 – The first B-2 stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
• 2004 – Massive protests started in cities across Ukraine, resulting from allegations that the Ukrainian presidential election between sitting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and leader of the opposition coalition Viktor Yushchenko was rigged.