1980
Nov 22, Actress Mae West died in Hollywood at age 87.

1997
Nov 22, The Miss World pageant in the Seychelles Islands was won by Diana Hayden (24), Miss India.

2001
Nov 22, Mary Kay Ash (b.1918), founder of the Mary Kay cosmetics firm, died in Dallas. By 2001 her 1963 sales force of 11 had grown to over 750,000 in 37 countries.

2003
Nov 22, North Dakota student Dru Sjodin (22) was last seen at the Grand Forks, ND, mall, where she worked. Her body was found the following April near Crookston, Minn. Suspect Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., released from prison 6-months before the murder, pleaded innocent to kidnapping resulting in Sjodin's death. In 2006 a jury found Rodriguez (53) guilty of kidnapping and killing Sjodin and was sentenced to death. North Dakota’s last execution was in 1905

2005
Nov 22, A woman farmer in east China died from bird flu after contact with sick poultry, becoming the third confirmed human case in the country and the 2nd confirmed fatality

2005
Nov 22, Angela Merkel was elected as Germany's first female chancellor, taking power at the helm of an unwieldy alliance of the right and left that now officially has the job of turning around Europe's biggest economy.

2012
Nov 22, In southern Thailand the headmistress of Bna Tha Kam Cham school was killed while driving home.

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