November 22<\/p>\n
1497 \u2013 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope during his first voyage from Europe to reach India<\/p>\n
1574 \u2013 Spanish navigator Juan Fern\u00e1ndez discovers islands off the coast of Chile that, for reasons lost to historians, are now known as the Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Islands.<\/p>\n
1718 \u2013Edward “Blackbeard” Teach aboard Adventure<\/em> is killed in battle off the coast of North Carolina by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard commanding HMAV Jane.<\/em><\/p>\n 1842 \u2013 Mount St. Helens in then British Oregon Country, erupts, covering area as far as Vancouver and the Dalles with ash<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 Denver Colorado, is founded.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last Shogun of Imperial Japan, who was deposed by Emperor Meiji, dies in Tokyo.<\/p>\n 1935 \u2013 Pan American Airways China Clipper<\/em>, a Martin M-130 Ocean Transport<\/em> flying boat,\u00a0inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army at Stalingrad is surrounded by Soviet Forces.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 The Soviet Union detonates it’s first thermonuclear bomb, RDS-37<\/em>, a 1.6 megaton two stage bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov over Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 In Dallas, Texas, President Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor Connally is seriously wounded by rifle fire. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde<\/em> service.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 The prototype B-2 Spirit<\/em> bomber is presented to public viewing in Palmdale, California<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Toy Story<\/em> is released as the first feature length film created completely using CGI – computer generated imagery.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Shortly after takeoff from Baghdad International Airport, a DHL Express Airbus A300 cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Walmart expands it grocery delivery and pickup service into southwest Missouri.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves 7 workers dead, including the shooter, and 4 others injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 22 1497 \u2013 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope during his first voyage from Europe to reach India 1574 \u2013 Spanish navigator Juan Fern\u00e1ndez discovers islands off the coast of Chile that, for reasons lost to historians, are now known as the Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Islands. 1718 \u2013Edward “Blackbeard” Teach … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74494,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions\/74494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}