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November 22, 2014

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 19, 2014, covering November 22, 2014.

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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

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    Album cover for NOW 52 by Various Artists

    NOW 52

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for It's The Girls! by Bette Midler

    It's The Girls!

    Bette Midler

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    Album cover for Old Boots; New Dirt by Jason Aldean

    Old Boots; New Dirt

    Jason Aldean

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    Album cover for Motion by Calvin Harris

    Motion

    Calvin Harris

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Historical Events

African Americans

2014While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.[†]

African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S.

Historical Context for November 22, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]