eso ha pasado un 22 Noviembre

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.

Actualidad del día : 22 Noviembre

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.

Cita del día : 22 Noviembre

Général Leclerc
Never execute idiot orders

Cumpleaños : 22 Noviembre

René-Robert Cavelier de La Sal, Explorador francés (1643)
Franklin Pierce, 14º Presidente de los Estados Unidos (1804)
Thomas Cook, Agente de viajes inglés (1808)
George Eliot, Escritora inglesa (1819)
Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Diplomático francés, Premio Nobel de la Paz (1852)
André Gide, Escritor francés, Premio Nobel de Literatura (1869)
Charles de Gaulle, Político y general francés (1890)
Hoagy Carmichael, Compositor estadounidense (1899)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, General francés (1902)
Louis Néel, Físico francés, Premio Nobel (1904)
Andrew Huxley, Biofísico inglés, Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina (1917)
Arthur Hiller, Director de cine canadiense (1923)
Geraldine Page, Actriz americana (1924)
Robert Vaughn, Actor americano (1932)
Terry Gilliam, Actor y director de cine inglés (1940)
Tom Conti, Actor escocés (1941)
Guion Bluford, Astronauta americano (1942)
Kent Nagano, Director de orquesta estadounidense (1951)
Jamie Lee Curtis, Actriz americana (1958)
Bruce Payne, Actor inglés (1958)
Mariel Hemingway, Actriz americana (1961)
Boris Becker, Jugador de tenis alemán (1967)
Mark Ruffalo, Actor americano (1967)
Rasmus Lerdorf, Programador canadiense danés (1968)
Chad Trujillo, Astrónomo estadounidense (1973)
David Pelletier, Patinador artístico canadiense (1974)
Scarlett Johansson, Actriz americana (1984)
Jamie Campbell Bower, Actor inglés (1988)

Nos han dejado un 22 Noviembre

Jack London, Escritor estadounidense (1916)
John F. Kennedy, 35o presidente de los Estados Unidos (1963)
Mae West, Actriz y guionista estadounidense (1980)
Hans Adolf Krebs, Bioquímico alemán inglés, Premio Nobel de Medicina o Fisiología (1981)
Anthony Burgess, Escritor inglés (1993)
Terence Donovan, Fotógrafo inglés (1996)
María Casares, Actriz española francesa (1996)
Emil Zátopek, Atleta checo (2000)
Théodore Monod, Naturalista francés (2000)
Maurice Béjart, Coreógrafo francés suizo (2007)
Frank Fenner, Microbiólogo australiano (2010)
Julien Guiomar, Actor francés (2010)
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