Historical Events on 22 Nov

Historical Events on 22 Nov

1573 - The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1928 - First execution of Ravel's Boléro in Paris.
1935 - The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advances into Albanian soil and capture Korytsa.
1940 - Philip Murray succeeds founder John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army was surrounded.
1943 - Lebanon gained independence from France.
1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
1963 - In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same
1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
1973 - The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1976 - Adolfo Suárez is elected Prime Minister of Spain.
1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1986 - Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Brubick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
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.
498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.