Independence
day
Lebanon
Events
of the day
498 – After the death
of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope
in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius
is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe,
defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald
at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull
Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed
all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest
all Templars and seize their assets.
1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández
discovers islands now known as the Juan
Fernández Islands off Chile.
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch
a pacification campaign against native villages,
resulting in Dutch control of the middle
and south of the island.
1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina,
British pirate Edward Teach (best known
as "Blackbeard") is killed in
battle with a boarding party led by Royal
Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
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
1873 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre
sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with
the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the
Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes
the Albanian alphabet.
1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's
Boléro takes place in Paris.
1931 – Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the
first commercial transpacific air service,
connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
1940 – World War II: Following the initial
Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack
into Italian-occupied Albania and capture
Korytsa.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad:
General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler
a telegram saying that the German 6th Army
is surrounded.
1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese
Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt,
to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
1948 – Chinese Civil War: Elements of the
Chinese Communist Second Field Army under
Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army,
beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the
largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
1954 – The Humane Society of the United
States is founded.
1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known
as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened
in Melbourne, Australia.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is
assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally
is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald,
who also kills Dallas Police officer J.
D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in
as the 36th President of the United States
afterwards.
1963 – William Clay Ford Sr. buys the Detroit
Lions for $4.5 million.
1963 – The Beatles release With the Beatles.
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).
1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering
tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster,
five children and one of their leaders are
found dead from exposure in the Scottish
mountains.
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
following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular
London to New York City supersonic Concorde
service.
1986 – Mike Tyson from Brooklyn, New York
becomes the youngest heavyweight champion
in boxing history at age 20.
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are
hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as
Max Headroom.
1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first
prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
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.
1994 – The Sega Saturn is released in Japan.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first
feature-length film created completely using
computer-generated imagery.
1995 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake
shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia
region with a maximum Mercalli intensity
of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring
30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people
are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants
of the Miss World contest.
2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident:
Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo
plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air
missile and forced to land.
2003 – England defeats Australia in the
2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the
first side from the Northern Hemisphere
to win the tournament.
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine,
resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female
Chancellor of Germany.
Holidays
and observances
Arbour
Day (British Virgin Islands)
Christian feast day:
Amphilochius of Iconium
Cecilia
George (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday
in Georgia)
Herbert
Philemon and Apphia
Pragmatius of Autun
November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Justice (Azerbaijan)
Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and
ethnic Albanians)
Earliest day on which Holodomor Remembrance
Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest;
celebrated on the fourth Saturday of November.
(Ukraine)
Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can
fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated
on the fourth Thursday of November. (United
States)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Lebanon from France in 1943.
Teacher's Day (Costa Rica)
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