Today In History - November 22nd, John F. Kennedy is Assassinated

[jchima]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.



1220 After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III.

1542 New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement.

1757 The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War.

1847 In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city's first operatic theater, is opened.

1902 A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York.

1915 The Anglo-Indian army, led by British General Sir Charles Townshend, attacks a larger Turkish force under General Nur-ud-Din at Ctesiphon, Iraq, but is repulsed.

1919 A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week.

1928 British King George is confined to bed with a congested lung; the queen is to take over duties.

1935 Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila.

1936 1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and Mongolians in China.

1942 Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.

1948 Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN.

1963 Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.

Source: Today In History - November 22nd John F. Kennedy is Assassinated - eReporter

 

[Jackson]

I was in Latin class when it was announced. I was numb as was most of the students and our teacher began crying. I believe the buses came early to take us home.

There was 3 days of mourning and the television was on non stop. I saw Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald when he was being moved from jail by the police dept. How horribly sad it was.

John Jr. saluting his father's coffin as it went by in the funeral procession. All tear jerkers.

 

[namvet]

seems to be a date Americans forgot

 

[whitehall]

Liberals have been trying for half a century to turn Oswald into a right wing maniac. He was a left wing deserter who renounced his citizenship and went to Russia. Why the CIA and the FBI welcomed him back into the US with his KGB wife without charging him with at least desertion is anybody's guess.

 

[jwoodie]

Kennedy's assassination, combined with Civil Rights and the Viet Nam war, was the Radicals' trifecta. Belief in the legitimacy of our government was replaced with a form of social anarchism which was ripe for political manipulation. Fifty years later we are still paying the price.