On This Day in History November 22, 2018

Historical Events 1497  Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India 1926  Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth 1935  Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1963  American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas 1969  Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University 2005  Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Billie Jean King 75th Birthday Boris Becker 51st Birthday Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970) Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) Mae West (1893 - 1980) More Famous Deaths November 21st: Bare Bones of the Great Ape-Man Hoax On this day the Piltdown Man skull, which had been hailed as the missing link proving an evolutionary relationship between man and apes, was revealed as a