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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_22" title="November 22">November 22</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1635" title="1635">1635</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Formosa" title="Dutch Formosa">Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan</a> launched <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_pacification_campaign_on_Formosa" title="Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa">a three-month pacification campaign</a></b> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_indigenous_peoples" title="Taiwanese indigenous peoples">the island's indigenous peoples</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1718" title="1718">1718</a> – The pirate <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard" title="Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a></b> was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_North_Carolina" title="Province of North Carolina">Province of North Carolina</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1873" title="1873">1873</a> – The French steamship <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ville_du_Havre" title="SS Ville du Havre">Ville du Havre</a></b></i> collided with a Scottish iron <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper" title="Clipper">clipper</a> in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a> – In <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster" title="Cairngorm Plateau disaster">Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy</a></b>, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia" title="Hypothermia">exposure</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorms" title="Cairngorms">Cairngorm Plateau</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" title="Scottish Highlands">Scottish Highlands</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alsop" title="John Alsop">John Alsop</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1794); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo" title="Mark Ruffalo">Mark Ruffalo</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1967); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asima_Chatterjee" title="Asima Chatterjee">Asima Chatterjee</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2006)</p>