NOVEMBER 22 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON NOVEMBER 22 IN HISTORY

• 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
• 1906 - International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
• 1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
• 1914 - Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia
• 1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
• 1954 - Humane Society forms
• 1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1960 - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
• 1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
• 1972 - US ends 22 year travel ban to China
• 1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
• 1976 - Algeria Constitution goes into effect
• 1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
• 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2013 - Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats  Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship
• 2013 - The discovery of Siats meekerorum was announced. The dinosaur skeleton, more than 30 feet long, was found in eastern Utah.