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On November 22, 1963, just hours after JFK's assassination, comedian Lenny Bruce performed a scheduled nightclub gig. Bruce walked up on stage and stood in silence for a few moments. Then, referring to the famed JFK impersonator, he stated in a sad voice "Boy, is Vaughn Meader fucked."

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture's experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.

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1. The New York City owns an abandoned 22-acre island less than one mile from Manhattan. It has been abandoned since 1963 with no current plans of development.

2. Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, and John F. Kennedy all died on the same exact day, November 22, 1963.

3. 5 US citizens burned themselves to death in protest of the Vietnam War, inspired by the 1963 self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức. Among them was an 82 year old woman, a 22 year old Catholic Worker Movement member, a 31 year old Quaker pacifist, a 23 year old student, and a 56 year old housewife.

4. In the original pie fight ending in Dr. Strangelove General Turgidson exclaims: "Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has been struck down in his prime!". The first test screening of the film was scheduled for November 22, 1963, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

5. A 1963 plan by the US Atomic Energy Commission, Caltrans, and the Santa Fe Railway would have used 22 nuclear explosions to excavate a massive roadcut through California's Bristol Mountains to accommodate the construction of Interstate 40.

6. Bobby Hebb’s song ‘Sunny’ was written in the aftermath of both JFK’s assassination and his brother’s murder on 22 November 1963. Hebb wrote the song to emphasise optimism even in the darkest of times.

7. After release from the hospital he resigned from his teaching position at Cambridge. On November 22, 1963 he passed away at the age of 64.

8. The federal poverty threshold is determined in part by multiplying the minimum cost of food in 1963 by 3. A loaf of bread in 1963 was 22 cents.

9. The first (British) national press the Beatles ever got was June 18, 1963, when the London Daily Mirror reported that he beat up a DJ at Paul's 21st birthday party. (Proof at 4:22)

10. There is a 24 hour live camera facing out of the window at the schoolbook depository where Lee Harvey Oswald was perched on November 22, 1963

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Bernie Sanders participated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's March to Washington in 1963. He was a 22 year old college student at the time.

When Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on November 22, 1963 in connection with the murders of JFK and Officer J.D. Tippit, his first response was "I haven't done anything to be ashamed of." - source

Of the 27 IIHF World Championships between 1963-1990, the Soviet Union was the champion for 22 of those. - source