It happened one 22 November

1718 : End of Blackbeard


On November 22, 1718, Edward Teach, better known by the name of Blackbeard, was killed by the British off North Carolina. Blackbeard was one of the fiercest and famous pirates of the Caribbean and American coast.

1950 : Train crash in New York


On November 22, 1950, in New York, a stationary train failed to restart due to locked wheels. The fire was green, the next train arrived behind, unable to stop in time and strucked the first train from behind. 79 people were killed and 363 others were injured.

1963 : President John F. Kennedy is assassinated


On 22 November 1963, at 12:30 p.m., President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas while sitting in an open car with his wife and Texas Governor John Connally. Vice President Johnson became the 36th President of the United States a few hours later. His assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested shortly after and killed the following day by Jack Ruby, an operator of dance halls with links to organized crime. Kennedy was the fourth U.S. president to be assassinated. There have been also attempted murders on many other presidents. Hundreds of thousands of people and the leaders of 99 countries followed the President Kennedy's funeral on November 25, declared day of national mourning.

1990 : Margaret Thatcher resigned


On November 22, 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, nicknamed the Iron Lady, resigned after 11 years in power. Her regime was marked by her hard management of the strikes in the mines, privatizations, the Falklands War, detente with the Soviet Union and an uncompromising attitude towards Northern Ireland.

2005 : Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor


On November 22, 2005, Angela Merkel, who headed the CDU, became German Chancellor. She was the first woman to hold this position.

Latest news : 22 November

Independance Day in Lebanon
November 22 is Independence Day in Lebanon celebrating the end of the French protectorate and the country's independence, recognized on 22 November 1943.

Quote of the day : 22 November

Général Leclerc
Never execute idiot orders

Birthdays : 22 November

René-Robert Cavelier de La Sal, French explorer (1643)
Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (1804)
Thomas Cook, English travel agent (1808)
George Eliot, English writer (1819)
Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize (1852)
André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1869)
Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician (1890)
Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (1899)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (1902)
Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Laureate (1904)
Andrew Huxley, English biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1917)
Arthur Hiller, Canadian director (1923)
Geraldine Page, American actress (1924)
Robert Vaughn, American actor (1932)
Terry Gilliam, English actor and director (1940)
Tom Conti, Scottish actor (1941)
Guion Bluford, American astronaut (1942)
Kent Nagano, American conductor (1951)
Bruce Payne, English actor (1958)
Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress (1958)
Mariel Hemingway, American actress (1961)
Boris Becker, German tennis player (1967)
Mark Ruffalo, American actor (1967)
Rasmus Lerdorf, Danish Canadian programmer (1968)
Chad Trujillo, American astronomer (1973)
David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater (1974)
Scarlett Johansson, American actress (1984)
Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor (1988)

They left us one 22 November

Jack London, American writer (1916)
John F. Kennedy, 35st President of the United States (1963)
Mae West, American actress and screenwriter (1980)
Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology (1981)
Anthony Burgess, English writer (1993)
Terence Donovan, English photographer (1996)
María Casares, Spanish frances actress (1996)
Théodore Monod, French naturalist (2000)
Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (2000)
Maurice Béjart, French Swiss choreographer (2007)
Julien Guiomar, French actor (2010)
Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (2010)

Tip of the Day : 22 November

Fix a custard up


To fix up a spoilt custard which has coagulated or has lumps, you can put it in a soup maker. The lumps will disappear and the cream will regain its velvety.

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