In 1247, according to legend, Robin Hood dies, in 1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation after 11 years and in 2005, Angela Merkel becomes the first female chancellor of Germany
Today, November 22, 2022
498…. Diarchy on the Papal Throne, with the election of Symmachus supported by the Visigoths and Laurentius supported by the Byzantines.
1247…. According to legend, Robin Hood dies, great defender of the poor and the weak. The poor of Nottingham mourn his loss.
1354…. The Emperor of Byzantium John VI Kantakouzinos abdicates all authority and closes himself in a monastery, where he will live as a simple monk until 1383 and write his famous history.
1821…. Yusuf Selim Pasha sets fire to Patra.
1897…. After the unfortunate Greek-Turkish War of 1897, the humiliating peace treaty between Greece and Turkey is signed in Istanbul. Greece is forced to evacuate the area between Mount Olympus and the Kamvounia Mountains. The treaty imposes on Greece International Financial Control and the obligation to pay Turkey 4,000,000 Turkish liras, as war compensation. With the same treaty, Crete acquires its autonomy.
1906…. The initials SOS are established as an international distress signal, at the Berlin International Conference on Wireless Telegraphy. It will be identified with the initials of the phrase “Save Our Souls”.
1920…. A referendum is held by the government of Dimitrios Ralli for the return of Konstantinos, who had been forced by the Entente forces to abdicate in 1916.
1940… World War II: The Greeks enter Kortsa victorious.
1942… World War II: At the Battle of Stalingrad, 250,000 German soldiers are surrounded by the Soviets. General Friedrich Paulus telegraphs to Hitler that his forces are surrounded.
…. On the same day, Hitler orders Rommel’s African army to fight to the death.
1943… World War II: The Cairo Conference begins. US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet to find a way to defeat Japan.
…. On the same day, Lebanon declares its independence from France, after twenty years of French occupation.
1956…. Opening ceremony of the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
1957…. The Primary School diploma becomes necessary for any job in Greece. Night schools are multiplying to deal with illiteracy.
1963… US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States, aboard Air Force One.
1975… Juan Carlos de Borbon is proclaimed king, two days after the death of General Francisco Franco in Madrid. Juan Carlos, the successor chosen by Franco himself, vows to remain loyal to Franco’s principles.
1977… The supersonic passenger plane ‘Concorde’ makes its maiden commercial flight, from London to New York.
1989…. The three political leaders, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Andreas Papandreou and Charilaos Florakis, during the fourth phase of the exploratory talks with the President of the Republic Christos Sargetakis, decide on the establishment of an ecumenical Government, under the academician Xenophon Zolotas.
…. On the same day, a bomb explodes in western Beirut, near the motorcade of the Lebanese president, Rene Mouawad. The president drops dead.
1990… British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announces her resignationafter 11 years, when he is challenged by the Conservative leadership.
1991…. Boutros Boutros Ghali, vice president of the Egyptian government, is elected as the new secretary general of the UN.
2002… More than 100 people are killed in riots calling for the Miss World beauty pageant not to take place in Nigeria. The riots are caused by Muslims, who storm and burn the offices of a newspaper that had written that – if the prophet Mohammed had lived, he might have married one of the contestants in the Miss World pageant. Over 100 dead, 200 injured, 12,000 homeless, 22 destroyed churches and 8 destroyed mosques are the tragic toll of the riots. Ultimately, the competition will be held in London, with Turkala as the winner.
…. On the same day, NATO expands to the East. Seven new countries join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. These are Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania.
2004… The so-called “Orange Revolution” breaks out in Ukraine, a series of protests that will last until January 2005 and bring pro-Western forces to power.
2005… Angela Merkel becomes Germany’s first female chancellor.
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