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Nov 22, 1963: President Kennedy is assassinated
President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed as his motorcade drives through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy's suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was believed to have used a mail-order rifle in order to shoot the president from the sixth story window of the Texas School Book Depository.
Oswald was a former Marine with a record of bizarre behavior. In 1959, he defected to Russia after years of obsessive interest in communism. He spent three years there before becoming disaffected and returning to the United States in 1962. Upon his return, he became involved with several political fringe groups and developed an intense interest in Cuba and Fidel Castro.
On November 22, several people claimed to have seen Oswald near the sixth floor of the Depository, where he was employed. From the sixth floor window, atop cartons of books assembled to make a sniper's perch, Oswald purportedly fired three shots, the last of which killed Kennedy as his motorcade passed by the building. A gun that was later located in the Depository had a palm print that matched Oswald's.
Forty-five minutes after the assassination, Oswald was seen hurrying through the Dallas streets by police officer J.D. Tippit, who identified him as matching the description of Kennedy's killer. When Tippit attempted to apprehend him, Oswald shot him to death with a revolver and fled.
In the early afternoon, police converged on the Texas Theater, where Oswald had been spotted. Inside, Oswald punched an approaching officer and withdrew a pistol. The gun misfired and other police officers grabbed him. "I am not resisting arrest," Oswald cried as he was dragged out in front of an angry crowd of onlookers. "Don't hit me anymore! I want a lawyer!" In fact, Oswald would never require the services of an attorney because he was shot and killed by Dallas restaurant owner Jack Ruby as he was being transferred from the police station to the county jail two days later.
Nov 22, 1942: Soviets encircle Germans at Stalingrad
On this day in 1942, a Soviet counteroffensive against the German armies pays off as the Red Army traps about a quarter-million German soldiers south of Kalach, on the Don River, within Stalingrad. As the Soviets' circle tightened, German General Friedrich Paulus requested permission from Berlin to withdraw.
The Battle of Stalingrad began in the summer of 1942, as German forces assaulted the city, a major industrial center and a prize strategic coup, if it could be occupied. But despite repeated attempts, the German 6th Army, under Paulus, and part of the 4th Panzer Army, under Ewald von Kleist, could not break past the adamantine defense by the Soviet 62nd Army, commanded by Gen. Vasily I. Chuikov, despite having pushed the Soviets almost to the Volga River in mid-October and encircling Stalingrad.
Diminishing resources, partisan guerilla attacks, and the cruelty of the Russian winter began to take their toll on the Germans. On November 19, the Soviets made their move, launching a counteroffensive that began with a massive artillery bombardment of the German position. The Soviets then assaulted the weakest link in the German force-inexperienced Romanian troops; 65,000 were ultimately taken prisoner by the Soviets.
The Soviets then made a bold strategic move, encircling the enemy, launching pincer movements from north and south simultaneously, even as the Germans encircled Stalingrad. The Germans should have withdrawn, but Hitler wouldn't allow it. He wanted his armies to hold out until they could be reinforced. By the time those fresh troops arrived in December, it was too late. The Soviet position was too strong, and the Germans were exhausted. It was then only a matter of time before the Germans would be forced to surrender.
Nov 22, 1718: Blackbeard killed off North Carolina
Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolina's Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy force sent from Virginia.
Believed to be a native of England, Edward Teach likely began his pirating career in 1713, when he became a crewman aboard a Caribbean sloop commanded by pirate Benjamin Hornigold. In 1717, after Hornigold accepted an offer of general amnesty by the British crown and retired as a pirate, Teach took over a captured 26-gun French merchantman, increased its armament to 40 guns, and renamed it the Queen Anne's Revenge.
During the next six months, the Queen Anne's Revenge served as the flagship of a pirate fleet featuring up to four vessels and more than 200 men. Teach became the most infamous pirate of his day, winning the popular name of Blackbeard for his long, dark beard, which he was said to light on fire during battles to intimidate his enemies. Blackbeard's pirate forces terrorized the Caribbean and the southern coast of North America and were notorious for their cruelty.
In May 1718, the Queen Anne's Revenge and another vessel were shipwrecked, forcing Blackbeard to desert a third ship and most of his men because of a lack of supplies. With the single remaining ship, Blackbeard sailed to Bath in North Carolina and met with Governor Charles Eden. Eden agreed to pardon Blackbeard in exchange for a share of his sizable booty.
At the request of North Carolina planters, Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia dispatched a British naval force under Lieutenant Robert Maynard to North Carolina to deal with Blackbeard. On November 22, Blackbeard's forces were defeated and he was killed in a bloody battle of Ocracoke Island. Legend has it that Blackbeard, who captured more than 30 ships in his brief pirating career, received five musket-ball wounds and 20 sword lacerations before dying.
Nov 22, 1783: John Hanson, so-called first president, dies
On this day in 1783, John Hanson, the first president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, dies in his home state of Maryland. Hanson is sometimes called the first president of the United States, but this is a misnomer, since the presidency did not exist as an executive position separate from Congress until the federal Constitution created the role upon its ratification in 1789.
Hanson was the self-educated son of Charles County, Maryland, farmers. His family had lived in Maryland for three generations beginning with the emigration from England of his grandfather, for whom he was named. At age 25, John married 16-year-old Jane Contee in Maryland. Their lasting union produced nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood, although their son Peter was later killed in action as a Continental soldier at Fort Washington, New York, in November 1776.
Hanson's political career began in 1757 with his election to the Maryland Colonial Assembly. He returned to represent Charles County again from 1758-1763, 1765, 1766 and 1768-1769. As colonial-British relations frayed, Hanson took a seat in the revolutionary Annapolis Convention, which took control of the colony from the British in 1774 and renamed itself the Assembly of Freemen in 1776. An outspoken supporter of the Patriot cause, Hanson was instrumental in Maryland's decision to back the rebels laying siege to British-controlled Boston in the aftermath of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Named a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1779, Hanson served in that body from 1780 to 1782, including a term as the president of Congress (a position similar to that of prime minister in the British Parliament) from 1781 to 1782, during which time the Articles of Confederation were finally ratified and General George Washington defeated the British army at Yorktown, Virginia. Upon the ratification of the Articles on March 1, 1781, the Continental Congress became the "Congress of the Confederation" or the "United States in Congress Assembled." Hanson was the first president of that body, but not of the United States.
Nov 22, 1986: Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ in history
On November 22, 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson knocks out 33-year-old Trevor Berbick in just five minutes and 35 seconds to become the youngest titleholder ever. "I’m the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history," Tyson told his manager after the fight, "and I’m going to be the oldest."
Tyson’s bravado wasn’t misplaced: When he walked into the ring to face Berbick, he had won all 27 of the matches he’d fought, knocking out 26 of his opponents. He threw unbelievably hard punches--"pineapples," trainer Angelo Dundee called them. Ref Mills Lane agreed: "Everything he’s got has ‘good night’ written all over it," he said. Berbick refused to be intimidated by the younger man’s furious arm and decided--unwisely, it turned out--to stand up to Tyson instead of boxing him. He didn’t bob or weave or even throw punches. He just stood there, wanting to show the world that he could take whatever Tyson was dishing out. "I was trying to prove to myself that I could take his best shot," Berbick said, but "he punches pretty hard."
Tyson had a plan, too: "I wanted to throw every punch with bad intentions," he said after the fight. "I was throwing--what can I say--hydrogen bombs." During the first round, Berbick had fought in such slow motion that he looked like he was underwater; early in the second, Tyson walloped him to the mat with a powerful left hook. The older man bounced up, but Tyson thumped him again. Berbick froze; then his legs buckled and he fell. The ref began to count while the champ struggled to get up. He lifted himself off the mat twice, and twice his legs wobbled so much that he fell again. He finally made it up, but Lane stopped the fight anyway. "Berbick was up," he said later, "but to allow somebody to get hit in that condition, that’s criminal."
Tyson kept his title for nine more bouts, until Buster Douglas beat him in 1990. After that, his life unraveled. He was sent to prison for three years for rape. Then, five fights into his comeback in 1995, he bit off a part of Evander Holyfield’s ear and was disqualified. He retired for good in 2005. Berbick didn’t fare much better: He, too, spent time in prison for rape, and was found dead (of "chop wounds" to his head, according to the coroner’s report) in a church courtyard in Jamaica in 2006.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
498 - St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing
Anastasius II
845 - 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats
the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1221 - Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1346 - Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde
Gunterlingen statements
1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from
Columbus's fleet
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of
Good Hope
1542 - Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery
in America
1573 - The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1675 - English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 - Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures,"
premieres in London
1699 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland
divide Sweden
1707 - Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of
Friesland
1714 - King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to
Sweden
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate
Edward Teach ("Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party
led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1794 - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision
& wearing of beards
1809 - Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom.
1831 - Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced
(Paris)
Explorer of the New World Christopher ColumbusExplorer of
the New World Christopher Columbus 1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 - Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced
(Paris)
1861 - Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 - American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia,
ends after 650 casualties
1864 - Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to
death
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo,"
premieres in Prague
1884 - T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 - Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne,
Australia
1898 - Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1899 - -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer
army)
1905 - British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet
attack Lesbos
1906 - Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts
"SOS" as new call for help
1908 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans
defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 - Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
1917 - NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons,
Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey
Association disbands
1918 - Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns
1918 - King Albert I's triumphant procession through
Brussels
1918 - Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator)
of Poland
1918 - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg
(Lvov)
1919 - 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse,
Amsterdam
1919 - Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work
day & 48-hour week
1922 - British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as
leader
1922 - Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 - Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government
30th US President Calvin Coolidge30th US President Calvin
Coolidge 1923 - Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke,
sentenced to death
1924 - England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of
college
1926 - Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit
Commonwealth
1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner
Wisc)
1927 - George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres
in NYC
1927 - Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 - "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed
publicly (Paris)
1929 - Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket
SCG
1930 - 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard
13, Yale 0)
1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1931 - Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite,"
premieres
1932 - Pump patented that computes quantity & price
delivered
1934 - "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard
on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda,
California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1936 - 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC
Pinehurst NC
1940 - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary
cruiser Atlantis
1941 - NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1942 - Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
German WWII Field Marshal Erwin RommelGerman WWII Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel 1942 - Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to
last man
1943 - FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss
ways to defeat Japan
1943 - Lebanon declares independence from French
administration
1943 - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 - US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1944 - Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at
Geilenkirchen
1945 - "Day before Spring" opens at National
Theater NYC for 167 performances
1945 - Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL
record)
1950 - 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19,
Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 - 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1952 - A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1954 - Humane Society forms
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun
Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from
Tupelo Miss
1956 - 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis PresleySinger &
Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1956 - Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw
streak of 55 games
1957 - Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 - Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie
Hall in NY
1957 - Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American
Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1959 - AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB,
Notre Dame
1959 - Boston Patriots enters AFL
1960 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear
weapons
1961 - Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major
leagues
1961 - St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19
of 19 free throws
1961 - Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman
announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1963 - Beatles release their 2nd album "With the
Beatles" in UK
1963 - Lyndon B Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president
after assassination of President Kennedy
1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by
Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast
Golf Invitational
1964 - WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS)
begins broadcasting
US President John F. KennedyUS President John F. Kennedy
1965 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329
perfs
1965 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for
heavyweight boxing title
1966 - 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida
(QB)
1967 - BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by
Beatles
1967 - Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 - UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give
back occupied land
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
1968 - Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album)
their only double album
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at
Harvard U
1971 - "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison
Theater NYC for 144 performances
1972 - Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1972 - Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 - Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5
goals (2:07)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad AliHeavyweight Boxing
Champion Muhammad Ali 1972 - US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1973 - The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is
disbanded.
1974 - Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1974 - Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv
Richards, at Bangalore
1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to
sovereignty
1975 - Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1976 - Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 - Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite,
debuts
1977 - Regular Concorde passenger service between NY &
Europe begins
1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in
what would eventually become the Internet.
1980 - Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million
gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1981 - "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC
after 48 performances
1981 - 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa
Rough Riders, 26-23
1981 - Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being
intercepted 6 times
1981 - SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs
Oakland (55-21)
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1982 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly
AFB, Texas
TV Host Fred RogersTV Host Fred Rogers 1984 - Fred Rogers of
PBS "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian
Institution
1985 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS
61-C
1985 - Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants
become US citizens
1985 - PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1986 - Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight
WBC boxing title
1986 - Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score
500 goals
1987 - Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an
unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1989 - Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss
World
1989 - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn
& Moon
1989 - Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year
Minnesota Twins contract
1989 - US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9)
launches into orbit
1989 - Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end
their strike, but most are not rehired
1990 - George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as
British Prime Minister
British Prime Minister Margaret ThatcherBritish Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher 1990 - Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of
Liberia
1991 - NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million
for 2 yr extension
1992 - Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke
(28.57 sec)
1992 - Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually
harassed 10 women
1993 - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at
Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf
1995 - Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10
women
1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length
film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the
wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not
true"
2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an
attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard
Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's
resignation.
2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting
from the presidential elections.
2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of
Germany.
2008 - YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast,
YouTube Live.
2012 - 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a
100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
2012 - 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure
92
1699 - A treaty was signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for the partitioning of the Swedish Empire. 1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times. 1880 - Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut in New York City. 1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated in New Jersey. 1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal. 1909 - Helen Hayes appeared on stage for the first time. She was a member of the cast of "In Old Dutch." 1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs. 1928 - In Paris, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed publicly. 1935 - The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, CA, when the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila. The craft was carrying over 110,000 pieces of mail. 1942 - During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad began. 1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the measures for defeating Japan. 1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18. 1961 - The film, "A Man for All Seasons", opened in New York City. 1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President. 1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved resolution 242. The resolution called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967 and called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist. 1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon lifted a ban on American travel to Cuba. The ban had been put in place on February 8, 1963. 1974 - The U.N. General Assembly gave the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. 1975 - Juan Carlos I was proclaimed King of Spain upon the death of Gen. Francisco Franco. 1975 - "Dr. Zhivago" appeared on TV for the first time. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights. 1977 - Regular passenger service on the Concorde began between New York and Europe. 1983 - The Bundestag approved NATO's plan to deploy new U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany. 1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" presented a sweater to the Smithsonian Institution. 1985 - Anne Henderson-Pollard was taken into custody a day after her husband Jonathon Jay Pollard was arrested for spying for Israel. 1985 - 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States. It was the largest swearing-in ceremony. 1986 - An Iranian surface-to-surface missile hit a residential area in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, wounding 20 civilians. 1986 - Attorney Generel Meese's office discovered a memo in Colonel Oliver North's office that included an amount of money to be sent to the Contras from the profits of weapons sales to Iran. 1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old. 1988 - The South African government announced it had joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola. 1989 - Rene Moawad, the president of Lebanon, was assassinated less than three weeks after taking office by a bomb that exploded next to his motorcade in West Beirut. 1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. 1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign. 1993 - Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement. 1993 - American Airlines flight attendants ended their strike that only lasted four days. 1994 - Inside the District of Columbia's police headquarters a gunman opened fire. Two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman were killed in the gun battle. 1994 - In northwest Bosnia, Serb fighters set villages on fire in response to a retaliatory air strikes by NATO. 1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder. 2005 - Angela Merkel was elected as Germany's first female chancellor. 2005 - Microsoft's XBOX 360 went on sale.
1497 Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama became the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a sea route to India. 1718 Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America. 1842 Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted. Ash fallout reached as far as 48 mi away. 1906 "S-O-S" was adopted as a distress signal at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. 1943 President Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. 1990 Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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