1963
Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy
in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
| 1220 | After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III. | |
| 1542 | New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement. | |
| 1757 | The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War. | |
| 1847 | In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city’s first operatic theater, is opened. | |
| 1902 | A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York. | |
| 1915 | The Anglo-Indian army, led by British General Sir Charles Townshend, attacks a larger Turkish force under General Nur-ud-Din at Ctesiphon, Iraq, but is repulsed. | |
| 1919 | A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week. | |
| 1928 | British King George VI is confined to bed with a congested lung; the queen is to take over his duties. | |
| 1935 | Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila. | |
| 1936 | 1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and the Mongolians in China. | |
| 1942 | Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. | |
| 1943 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin does not attend the Cairo Conference (code-named Sextant) out of concern that his meeting with Chiang will cause friction between the Soviet Union and Japan. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History] | |
| 1948 | Ho Chi Minh‘s Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN. | |
| 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. | |
| 1964 | Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death. | |
| 1973 | Great Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland. | |
| 1980 | Eighteen Communist Party secretaries in 49 provinces are ousted from Poland. | |
| 1982 | President Ronald Reagan calls for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile. | |
| 1986 | The Justice Department finds a memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office on the transfer of $12 million to the Contras of Nicaragua from an Iranian arms sale. | |
| 1988 | The first prototype of a B-2 Spirit strategic stealth bomber is unveiled for public viewing. | |
| 1989 | Lebanese President Rene Moawad is killed when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in West Beirut. | |
| 1990 | Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirms the end of her premiership by withdrawing from the leadership election of the Conservative Party. | |
| 1995 | The first feature-length film created entirely with computer generated imagery – Toy Story – premiers. | |
| 2004 | The Orange Revolution, protesting a primary election believed to have been rigged, begins in the Ukraine. On Dec 26 Ukraine’s Supreme Court orders a revote. | |
| 2005 | Angela Merkel becomes the first woman ever to be Chancellor of Germany; the former research scientist had previously been the first secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Union. | |
| 2008 |
Hamas and Israel begin a cease-fire following eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
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Born on November 22
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| 1819 | George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist (Silas Marner, Middlemarch). | |
| 1890 | Charles de Gaulle, French general in exile during World War II and president of France from 1958 to 1969. | |
| 1899 | Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, pianist and singer. | |
| 1913 | Benjamin Britten, English composer, pianist and conductor. | |
| 1924 | Geraldine Page, actress well known for roles in Tennessee Williams’ plays. | |
| 1925 | Gunther Schuller, composer and French Horn player. | |
| 1943 | Billie Jean King, U.S. tennis player and women’s rights pioneer. | |
| 1949 | David Pietrusza, historian, author (1920, 1960, 1948). | |
| 1950 | Steven Van Zandt, singer, songwriter, musician, producer (E Street Band, Steel Mill, Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes) and actor (The Sopranos). | |
| 1958 | Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (Halloween, Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda), author (Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day). | |
| 1961 | Mariel Hemingway, actress (Lipstick, Manhattan). | |
| 1984 |
Scarlett Johansson, actress, model (North, Lost in Translation).
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