TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, November 22, the 326th day of 2016. There are 39 days left in the year.
1812 War of 1812: Seventeen Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
1837 Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay To the People of Upper Canada, published in his newspaper The
Constitution.
1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today. 1908 The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. 1928 The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris. 1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. 1943 Lebanon gains independence from France.
1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. 1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. 1968 The Beatles release
The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
1973 The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded. 1974 The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. 1975 Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain. 1986 Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history. 1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom. 1989 In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him. 1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership. 2002 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest. 2004 The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. 2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. 2015 A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin state, northern Myanmar, killed at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.