President John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas, Friday, November 22, 1963. Also in the presidential limousine are Jackie Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie. (Photo: Victor Hugo King, who placed the photograph in the public domain (presumably when he gave it to the Library of Congress). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Nov 22
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1943 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, aged 46.
1975 - Juan Carlos was sworn in as the first Spanish king since 1931. General Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain since 1939, had died two days earlier.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council picked Egyptian deputy prime minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali to succeed Javier Perez de Cuellar as U.N. secretary-general.
1997 - Australia's most successful rock singer, Michael Hutchence, was found dead in a Sydney luxury hotel. He was 37.
2002 - Nigeria decided to abandon the Miss World contest following a third day of Muslim-Christian violence in Kaduna triggered by the event. At least 215 people died.
2005 - Angela Merkel was elected Germany's first woman chancellor by parliament after her Christian Democrats won a national election.
2007 - The French choreographer Maurice Bejart, considered one of the great figures in contemporary dance, who came to prominence with a celebrated 1959 production of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", died aged 80.
2012 - Ceasefire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers takes hold after eight days of fighting.
2013 - Students in Thailand form world's largest human Christmas tree.
2015 - Deadly landslide near jade mine in northern Myanmar.
