November 22, 1963: US President John F. Kennedy is shot while driving in an open limousine in Dallas (Texas).

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On Wednesday, November 22nd, the book of history records, among other things:

1248: King Ferdinand III, who was later canonized. of Castile drives the Moors out of Seville following more than 500 years and makes the Andalusian city his residence: end of the rule of the Almohad dynasty.
1718: Pirate leader Edward Teach, known as “Blackbeard”, is captured and killed off the coast of North Carolina.
1848: Because of the revolutionary events in Vienna, the Austrian Reichstag meets in Kremsier (Kroměříž) in Moravia.
1878: The second British war in Afghanistan begins with the attack by British troops under Sir Samuel Browne on the Ali Musjid fortress.
1918: The Provisional National Assembly in Vienna adopts a declaration on the “extent, boundaries and relationships of the national territory”.
1918: French troops enter Strasbourg.
1918: The “German National People’s Party” (DNVP) is founded as a gathering place for conservative-nationalist forces.
1928: Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” is premiered at the Paris Théâtre National de l’Opéra.
1943: At the first Cairo Conference (until the 26th), US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill and Chinese head of state Chiang Kai-shek discussed the next operations once morest Japan and the post-war order in East Asia. The Western powers promise to bring China back into possession of all the territories that were seized from it by Japan.
1943: Independence is proclaimed in the French mandated territory of Lebanon (under the control of British troops since 1941).
1948: The military governors of Germany’s western occupied zones give the Chairman of the Parliamentary Council, Konrad Adenauer, guidelines for the drafting of the Basic Law. (The key points are a federal bicameral system and the independence of the judiciary. An emergency ordinance like in the Weimar Republic is excluded.)
1948: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, later President, publishes his book “Crusade in Europe”.
1953: In parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia, 95.5 percent of the votes were cast by the communist unified list.
1958: Switzerland joins the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as a provisional member.
1963: US President John F. Kennedy is shot in Dallas (Texas) while driving in an open limousine. On the same day, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President (murder suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.)
1978: More than 200 Vietnamese refugees die when a fishing vessel sinks off the coast of Malaysia.
1983: The German Bundestag approves the controversial stationing of medium-range nuclear weapons by the USA on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. This will implement the NATO decision to deploy Pershing II rockets and cruise missiles in Western Europe.
1988: After Heinrich Keller’s resignation, Josef Cap was appointed central secretary (later “federal managing director”) of the SPÖ.
1998: The “Vienna Actor Ring”, donated by author and theater director Herbert Lederer, will be presented for the first time. The winner is Herbert Föttinger. Every five years the award should be passed on to a successor “at the personal free choice of the respective recipient”.
2003: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in the Iraqi city of Bakuba, killing at least 18 people.
2003: With demonstrations and calls for civil disobedience, the opposition forces the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze following a supposedly manipulated election during the so-called “Rose Revolution”. After opposition demonstrators stormed the parliament building and the state chancellery, Shevardnadze submitted his resignation on November 23rd. Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze replaced him in office (until 2004).

Birthdays: René Robert de La Salle, French explorer (1643-1687); Thomas Cook, British tourism pioneer and travel agency founder (1808-1892); Lazar Kaganowitsch, Soviet politician (1893-1991); Benjamin Britten, British composer (1913-1976); Mikko Einar Juva, Finnish historian (1918-2004); Jörg Hube, German actor, cabaret artist and director (1943-2009); Billie Jean King, US tennis player (1943); Jamie Lee Curtis, US actress (1958); Sabine Ladstätter, Eastern. archaeologist; 2011 “Scientist of the Year”; since 2009 Director d. Eastern Archaeological Institute (1968); Elisabeth Köstinger, Austrian Politician (ÖVP) (1978).
Days of death: Raymond Arthur Dart, South African anthropologist (1893-1988); Aldous Huxley, British writer (1894-1963); CS Lewis (pseud. C. Hamilton), British writer and literary scholar (1898-1963); Friedrich Carl Fr. v. Oppenheim, German banker (1900-1978); John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA (1917-1963); Erich Fried, Eastern. writer (1921-1988); Tatyana Petrovna Nikolayeva, Russian pianist (1924-1993); Ibrahim Nasir, first president of the Second Republic of the Maldives (1926-2008); Alexander J. Seiler, Switzerland. Film director (1928-2018).
Name days: Cäcilie, Philemon, Rüdiger, Sheila, Sibylle, Markus, Stephan, Alfons, Maurus.

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