Top 13 important meanings of day 22 November

Portrait of Vasco da Gama by António Manuel da Fonseca (1838) credit: wikipedia

Updated today: 31/05/2021

1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India

1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth

1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight

1963 American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas

1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany

498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II

845 First King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats Frankish King Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon, near Redon

1220 Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III

1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements

1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America

1573 The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded

1574 Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.