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The early history of the National Hockey League (NHL) began in 1917 when it was founded by a majority of the franchises in the National Hockey Association (the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs). The NHL's first quarter-century saw the league compete against two rival major leagues, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and Western Canada Hockey League, for players and the Stanley Cup. The NHL first expanded into the United States in 1924 with the founding of the Boston Bruins, and by 1926 consisted of ten teams in Ontario, Quebec, the Great Lakes region, and the Northeastern United States. At the same time, the NHL emerged as the only major league and the sole competitor for the Stanley Cup. Numerous innovations to the rules and equipment were put forward as the NHL sought to improve the flow of the game and make the sport more fan-friendly. Foster Hewitt's radio broadcasts were heard coast-to-coast across Canada starting in 1933. The Great Depression and World War II reduced the league to six teams by 1942, known as the "Original Six". (Full article...)

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The 9th G-20 summit concludes in Brisbane, following discussions focusing primarily on economic issues.
Opposition candidate Klaus Iohannis (pictured) is elected President of Romania.
With world leaders from 21 Pacific Rim countries attending, the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting concludes in Beijing.
The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
In Mexico City, thousands protest the disappearance of 43 students after the discovery of mass graves.
The ALMA radio telescope array shows a protoplanetary disk around the star HL Tauri.

Ongoing: Ebola outbreak – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths: Mike Nichols – Alexander Grothendieck – Ken Takakura

November 22: Alphabet Day in Albania (1908); Independence Day in Lebanon (1943); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2014)

1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of North Carolina, ending his reign of terror in the Caribbean
1812 – War of 1812: During a punitive expedition against Native American villages, a contingent of Indiana Rangers were ambushed by Kickapoo, Winnebago, and Shawnee warriors.
1910 – The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Bahia—all of which had been commissioned only months before—and several smaller warships mutinied in what became known as the Revolt of the Lash.
1967 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
2004 – Massive protests (pictured) started across Ukraine due to allegations that the presidential election between sitting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko was rigged.

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Curculio occidentis, a species of weevil in the genus Curculio, atop an acorn. Commonly known as acorn weevils or nut weevils, members of this genus infest oaks and hickories.

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