The European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ; ) is the world's foremost alliance of public service media entities, comprising 74 Active Members in 56 countries and 37 Associate Members from a further 22 countries.

* Nile River valley and delta, Egypt, is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by the 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records with a stated area of 22, 000 square kilometres.

The Dutch government persisted in its attempt to smuggle the seeds, and by the 1930s Dutch plantations in Java were producing 22 million pounds of cinchona bark, or 97 % of the world's quinine production.

* November 22 – Emma Tillman, briefly the world's oldest living person and last verified person born in 1892 ( d. 2007 )

* March 22 – The world's first Television program is transmitted from the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany.

The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity ( 22, 500 MW ) but is second to Itaipu Dam with regard to the generation of electricity annually.

Singapore is a notable counter-example: it is located at 1. 22 ° N and is one of the world's most prosperous countries.

Burcham's flight of 4 h 5 min 22 s that December was not broken until July 24, 1991 when U. S. airshow pilot Joanne Osterud set a new world's record of 4 h 38 min 10 s. In 1936, Burcham flew his Boeing 100 to the World's Aerobatic Championship at the National Air Races in Los Angeles.

When the Australian missionary and social worker Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burned alive ( 22 January 1999 ), President Narayanan condemned it as a barbarous crime belonging to the world's inventory of black deeds.

Óscar Aristides de la Renta Fiallo ( born July 22, 1932 ) is one of the world's leading fashion designers.

In 2005 the city registered 19. 5 million of global visitors, up of 22. 1 % from 2001. and also, in 2006 Rome has been visited by 6. 03 million of international tourists, reaching the 8th place in the ranking of the world's 150 most visited cities.

The card, one of the world's first, was sold in 2001 by UK auctioneers Henry Aldridge to an anonymous bidder for a record breaking £ 22, 250.

* 22 January – George Foreman beats Joe Frazier by a knockout in two rounds to lift the world's Heavyweight championship from Frazier.

The LBT is currently one of the world's most advanced optical telescopes ; using two 8. 4 m ( 27 ft ) wide mirrors can give the same light gathering ability as a 11. 8 m ( 39 ft ) wide single circular telescope and detail of 22. 8 m ( 75 ft ) wide one.

* 22 July — the world's first competitive motor race was the Paris to Rouen.

On 22 May 2012, it was announced that Unilever achieved top-ten status in the 2012 Gartner Supply Chain Top 25, resulting in the company's best-ever performance in the index and establishing Unilever as one of the world's top supply chains.

She became the world's most famous go-go dancer, and a prototype for the modern stripper, while dancing at the Condor for 22 years.

Having spent over 22 years in office, Mahathir was the world's longest-serving elected leader when he retired.

The walkway has been extended several times and is currently 22 kilometres from end to end, making it the world's longest uninterrupted waterfront walkway.

New World monkeys are small to mid-sized primates, ranging from the Pygmy Marmoset ( the world's smallest monkey ), at 14 to 16 cm ( 5. 5 to 6. 3 in ) and a weight of 120 to 190 grams ( 4. 2 to 6. 7 oz ) to the Southern Muriqui, at 55 to 70 cm ( 22 to 28 in ) and a weight of 12 to 15 kg ( 26 to 33 lb ).

The world's first xerographic imageOn October 22, 1938, they had their historic breakthrough.

The 1991 show was also Crufts centenary year and as part of the celebrations to mark the occasion, the Guinness Book of Records gave official recognition of the event's status as the world's largest dog show, with 22, 973 dogs being exhibited that year.

Since its centenary year in 1991, the show has officially been recognised as the world's largest and most prestigious dog show by the Guinness Book of Records, with a total of 22, 973 dogs being exhibited that year.

At 55 cm ( 22 in ) and 1 kg ( 2. 2 lbs ), it is one of the world's largest shorebirds.

Oliver has recently used the second-level approach with the largest snakes, and has come to these conclusions: the anaconda reaches a length of at least 37 feet, the reticulate python 33, the African rock python 25, the amethystine python at least 22, the Indian python 20, and the boa constrictor 18-1/2.

The largest genera are Allium ( 260-690 species ), Nothoscordum ( 25 ), and Tulbaghia ( 22 ).

The World's largest MSW co-composter is the Edmonton Composting Facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which turns 220, 000 tonnes of residential solid waste and 22, 500 dry tonnes of biosolids per year into 80, 000 tonnes of compost.

Labour further increased its number of councillors at the 2009 local elections and currently has the largest number of TD's from the city ( 10 out of 22 ).

The National University of Ireland ( NUI ) has its seat in Dublin, which is also the location of the associated constituent university of University College Dublin ( UCD ), the largest university in Ireland with over 22, 000 students.

Conversely, if the data are sparse — that is, if only K out of N Fourier coefficients are nonzero — then the complexity can be reduced to O ( K log N log ( N / K )), and this has been demonstrated to lead to practical speedups compared to an ordinary FFT for N / K > 32 in a large-N example ( N = 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >) using a probabilistic approximate algorithm ( which estimates the largest K coefficients to several decimal places ).

Both the County Administrative Board and the municipality have their seat in the largest city Visby, with 22, 000 inhabitants.

In 2009, Hong Kong raised 22 percent of worldwide initial public offering ( IPO ) capital, becoming the largest centre of IPOs in the world.

On 22 November 1831 in Lyon ( the second largest city in France ) the silk workers revolted and took over the town hall in protest of recent salary reductions and working conditions.

Megawati's PDI-P party had won the largest share of the vote ( 34 %) in the general election, while Golkar, the dominant party during the Soeharto era, came in second ( 22 %).

In 2007, on 22 and 23 June, numerous tornadoes touched down, the largest of which was an F5 Tornado that devastated parts of Elie ( the strongest officially recorded tornado in Canada ).

The largest groups of foreign nationals were Turks ( 43, 309 ), Albanians ( 30, 385 ), Croats ( 24, 866 ), Serbs ( 24, 439 ), Greeks ( 22, 486 ), Austrians ( 21, 411 ), and Italians ( 20, 847 ).

AT & T is currently ( as of June 2007 ) the largest Frame Relay service provider in the United States, with local networks in 22 states, plus national and international networks.

The MNSD remained the largest party at 47 seats, be relied again on CDS-Rahama's 22 seats to govern.

Beginning on 22 June 1941, over 3. 9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.

Facebook for example, as of July 2010, was the largest social-networking site, with nearly 500 million members, or 22 percent of all Internet users, who upload over 25 billion pieces of content each month.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany broke the non-aggression treaty and invaded the Soviet Union with the largest and most powerful invasion force in human history, opening the largest theater of World War II.

On November 22, 2011, IPIC Group Ltd., a private Delaware-based investment firm, commenced a partial tender offer seeking to replace State Street as Bank of America's largest institutional shareholder.

Such deposits are polycrystalline, with the largest documented single crystal measuring 22 × 16 × 11 cm.

The largest fragment produced the main crater with a depth of 22 m. Eight smaller craters with diameters ranging from 12 to 40 m and depths varying from 1 to 4 m are all within 1 kilometer of the main crater.

Lerwick, the capital and largest settlement, has a population of around 7, 500 and about half of the archipelago's total population of 22, 000 people live within of the town.

Atatürk Dam is the largest of the 22 dams in the Southeastern Anatolia Project.

* August 22 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.