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1905 - ★(birth)"James Burnham", American philosopher and political theorist.
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1941 - ◆The meeting of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the Pearl Harbor attack is ordered.
Admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto orders the meeting of the Imperial Japanese Navy strike force for the Hawaii Operation attack on Pearl Harbor, in Tankan or Hitokappu Bay, in Iturup Island, South Kurils.
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1943 - ◆Cairo Conference is held in Cairo, Egypt.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan (World War II: Pacific War).
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1943 - ◆Lebanon gains independence from France.
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1943 - ◆(birth) Paul Wolfowitz, former president of the World Bank.
He is also former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
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1963 - ◆John F. Kennedy assassination.
In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit.
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The news of the assassination became the first US-Japan satellite relay broadcasting across the Pacific Ocean using satellite relay. However, it had been planned beforehand as an experiment on this day. Many Japanese had bought new TV sets for the broadcasting experiment.
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2005 - ▼"Merkel" takes office as "German chancellor".
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2005 - ▼"Airi Kinoshita" is sexually assaulted and murdered.
November 22 ⇒Back
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December 16, 1916 - ★Katherine Stinson performs a loop-the-loop acrobatic flying in Tokyo.
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January 8, 1942 - ◆(birth) Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Prime Minister.
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January 8, 1942 - ◆(birth) Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author.
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January 8, 1942 - ◆The first Imperial Rescript Proclamation Day is celebrated (Japan).
The day is November 22, 1941 in the Japanese calendar and is the day Japan actually launches the military operation against US (November 22, 1941).
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January 1, 1959 - ★The Cuban Revolution.
Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.
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