TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 22
1220 After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III.
1542 New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement.
1718 Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate, was killed off the east coast of North America.
1902 A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York.
1919 A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week.
1936 1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and Mongolians in China.
1948 Ho Chi Minh’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN.
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
1964 Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death.
1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
1973 Great Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland.
1982 President Ronald Reagan calls for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile.
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.
1989 Lebanese President Rene Moawad killed when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in West Beirut.
1995 The first feature-length film created entirely with computer generated imagery – Toy Story – premiers.
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..
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.
2008 Hamas and Israel begin a cease-fire following eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
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