On This Day in History  November 22

Historical Events

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the first voyage from Europe to reach India

1926 Imperial Conference ends, granting autonomy within the British Commonwealth

1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight]

Kennedy in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas, moments before he was assassinated

1963 US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas

1969 Isolation of a single gene is announced by scientists at Harvard University

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany

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Famous Birthdays

George Eliot 1819 - 1880 Charles de Gaulle 1890 - 1970

Eugene Stoner 1922 - 1997 Scarlett Johansson 40th Birthday

Also Rodney Dangerfield and Billie Jean King (81)

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Famous Deaths

Lorenz Hart Aldous Huxley

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The Assassination of President Kennedy

The shocking public killing of President Kennedy in 1963 was a momentous event in world history, giving birth to dozens of conspiracy theories.