At A Glance

20 November 2022 at a glance

Day of the week
20 November 2022 was a Sunday.
Irish Chart Song in 2022
The Irish chart song for 2022 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals.
Top Film of 2022
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
Star sign
The star sign for 20 November is Scorpio.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 20 November 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
Birthstone
The birthstone for November is Topaz.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 20 November 2022 was Waning Crescent.

On this day: 20 November

  • 1993 Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
  • 1994 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
  • 1998 The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
  • 2016 Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.
  • 2022 The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.

Famous people born on 20 November

  • Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States (born 1942)
  • Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (1925–1968)
  • Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1947)
  • Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress (born 1963)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2022 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 4 February – RTÉ selected Brooke Scullion to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy in May with the song "That's Rich".
  • 24 February – The taoiseach condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine as "an outrageous and moral breach of the most fundamental principles of international law."
  • 1 April – Atlantic Technological University, comprising the three institutes of technology in the northern and western regions – Letterkenny IT, Galway-Mayo IT and Sligo IT – formally came into operation, under its president Dr. Orla Flynn.

Life in Ireland in 2022

Taoiseach

Micheál Martin

Petrol (per litre)

€1.92/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.85

Average House

€370,000

Weekly Wage

€620

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