Today in history, November 22: Assassination of JFK, Miss World pageant cancelled in Nigeria due to riots
US President John F Kennedy was assassinated on this day in 1963 while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas and the Miss World pageant in Nigeria is cancelled and moved to London after news that Nigeria will host the event sparks
deadly riots.
1699: Treaty is signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for partition of Swedish Empire.
1718: English pirate Edward Teach – better known as “Blackbeard” – is killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
1906: The SOS distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1935: The flying boat, The China Clipper, leaves San Francisco on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1943: Lebanon is granted independence after two decades of French mandate rule.
1956: The first Olympics held in the southern hemisphere opens in Melbourne with junior world mile record holder Ron Clarke lighting the flame.
1962: Soviet Union announces end of combat-readiness alert of its armed forces, imposed at start of Cuban missile crisis.
1963: US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson becomes the 36th president.
1972: US President Richard Nixon lifts 22-year-old ban on American travel to China.
1977: The British and French supersonic airliner Concorde begins service out of New York’s Kennedy International Airport.
1989: Lebanese President Rene Mouawad is assassinated by a bomb.
1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after being defeated by John Major in a ballot for Conservative Party leader, resigns after 11-and-a-half years in office.
1992: NATO warships begin a blockade of Yugoslav territorial waters and a ceasefire virtually collapses.
1994: Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is placed under investigation in a bribery probe.
1995: Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2000: Four Palestinians are killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops near a Jewish settlement.
2002: Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria and move it instead to London after news that the African nation will host the event sparks deadly riots.
2005: Conservative Angela Merkel takes power as Germany’s first female chancellor and the country’s first leader to grow up under communism in East Germany.
2007: A transport strike that crippled France for nine days ends as rail workers around the country vote “yes” to return to the job.
2010: Thousands of people are crushed during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving more than 330 dead and hundreds injured.
2017: Dressed in the colours of the Indian flag, 58 army soldiers break the world record by riding on a motorbike at the same time.
2018: Brexit moves one step closer as Britain and the EU agree on a draft text that sets out a close post-Brexit economic relationship.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
“To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (1606-1684).
Highlights in history on this date:
1497: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama becomes first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
1699: Treaty is signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for partition of Swedish Empire.
1718: English pirate Edward Teach – better known as “Blackbeard” – is killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.
1906: The SOS distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
1935: The flying boat, The China Clipper, leaves San Francisco on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1943: Lebanon is granted independence after two decades of French mandate rule.
1956: The first Olympics held in the southern hemisphere opens in Melbourne with junior world mile record holder Ron Clarke lighting the flame.
1963: US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson becomes the 36th president.
1972: US President Richard Nixon lifts 22-year-old ban on American travel to China.
1977: The British and French supersonic airliner Concorde begins service out of New York’s Kennedy International Airport.
1989: Lebanese President Rene Mouawad is assassinated by a bomb.
1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after being defeated by John Major in a ballot for Conservative Party leader, resigns after 11-and-a-half years in office.
1992: NATO warships begin a blockade of Yugoslav territorial waters and a ceasefire virtually collapses.
1994: Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is placed under investigation in a bribery probe.
1995: Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2002: Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria and move it instead to London after news that the African nation will host the event sparks deadly riots.
2005: Conservative Angela Merkel takes power as Germany’s first female chancellor and the country’s first leader to grow up under communism in East Germany.
2007: A transport strike that crippled France for nine days ends as rail workers around the country vote “yes” to return to the job.
2010: Thousands of people are crushed during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving more than 330 dead and hundreds injured.
2018: Brexit moves one step closer as Britain and the EU agree on a draft text that sets out a close post-Brexit economic relationship.
“To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.” – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (1606-1684).
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