more events on November 22
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2008
Hamas and Israel begin a cease-fire following eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
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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.
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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..
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1995
The first feature-length film created entirely with computer generated imagery – Toy Story – premiers.
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1990
Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirms the end of her premiership by withdrawing from the leadership election of the Conservative Party.
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1989
Lebanese President Rene Moawad killed when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in West Beirut.
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1988
First prototype of B-2 Spirit strategic stealth bomber unveiled for public viewing.
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1986
Justice Department finds memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale.
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1984
Scarlett Johansson, actress, model (North, Lost in Translation).
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1982
President Ronald Reagan calls for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile.
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1980
Eighteen Communist Party secretaries in 49 provinces are ousted from Poland.
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1973
Great Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland.
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1964
Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death.
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1963
Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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1961
Mariel Hemingway, actress (Lipstick, Manhattan).
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1958
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress (Halloween, Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda), author (Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day).
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1950
Steven Van Zandt, singer, songwriter, musician, producer (E Street Band, Steel Mill, Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes) and actor (The Sopranos).
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1949
David Pietrusza, historian, author (1920, 1960, 1948).
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1948
Ho Chi Minh’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN.
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1943
Billie Jean King, U.S. tennis player and women’s rights pioneer.
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1942
Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.
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1936
1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and Mongolians in China.
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1935
Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila.
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1928
British King George is confined to bed with a congested lung; the queen is to take over duties.
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1925
Gunther Schuller, composer and French Horn player.
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1924
Geraldine Page, actress well known for roles in Tennessee Williams’ plays.
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1919
A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week.
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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.
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1913
Benjamin Britten, English composer, pianist and conductor.
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1902
A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York.
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1899
Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, pianist and singer.
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1890
Charles de Gaulle, French general in exile during World War II and president of France from 1958 to 1969.
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1847
In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city’s first operatic theater, is opened.
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1819
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), English novelist (Silas Marner, Middlemarch).
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1757
The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War.
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1542
New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement.
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1220
After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III.