NOVEMBER 22
1963:President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald as he rides in the open-top presidential limousine through Dallas, Tex., with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Gov. John Connally, who is also seriously injured by the assassin, and Connally's wife, Nellie. Barely two hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president of the United States aboard Air Force One.
1718: The notorious English pirate Edward Teach, better known as "Blackbeard," is killed during a battle near Ocracoke Island, N.C., with British naval forces led by Lt. Robert Maynard. Maynard has the pirate's body beheaded, while Virginia Gov. Alexander Spotswood decrees that Blackbeard's head should be placed on a stake near the Hampton River as a warning to other pirates.
2005: Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union is sworn in as the first female chancellor of Germany in the Bundestag, the German parliament.
1718: The notorious English pirate Edward Teach, better known as "Blackbeard," is killed during a battle near Ocracoke Island, N.C., with British naval forces led by Lt. Robert Maynard. Maynard has the pirate's body beheaded, while Virginia Gov. Alexander Spotswood decrees that Blackbeard's head should be placed on a stake near the Hampton River as a warning to other pirates.
2005: Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union is sworn in as the first female chancellor of Germany in the Bundestag, the German parliament.
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