Like Charlie Kirk's earlier this year, this assassination was felt around the world
Mike Tyson at the start of his heavyweight career.
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Did you know . . . .
The longest day of the year in the Southern hemisphere is the Summer Solstice on December 21. The shortest day, the Winter Solstice is on June 21. In the Northern hemisphere it is the opposite way around.
On this day in history, November 22
1497 In the teeth of a howling gale, Vasco da Gama’s little fleet of four ships rounds the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first recorded people to do so, while searching for a sea route to India. (It’s possible that the Phoenicians and Chinese did so earlier.)
1718 Notorious pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed off North Carolina.
1899 During the Anglo-Boer War Battle of Willow Grange in KZN, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightning, while a burgher and six horses are killed near Brynbella, near Mooi River, KZN.
1900 Paul Kruger, exiled president of the Boer Republic, is given a rousing welcome when he lands in Marseilles, France.
1917 A German Zeppelin airship starts a flight from Bulgaria to Khartoum carrying much-needed supplies to General von Lettow’s troops campaiging in East Africa.
1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel’s Afrika Korps to fight to the last man. They don’t.
1942 General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the occupying German 6th Army is surrounded in Stalingrad.
1963 US President John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Conspiracy theories abound.
1986 ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson, 20 – ‘the baddest man on the planet’ – becomes the youngest heavyweight boxing champion.
1988 A submersible finds the black box of the SAA Boeing 747, Helderberg off Mauritius.
1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2017 Vanellope Wilkins, born with her heart outside her body, is the first UK baby to survive birth and surgery to reinsert her heart.
2019 In a speech at the Anti-Defamation League’s summit, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (star of Borat) condemns Facebook’s ethics by saying that if the platform had existed in the 1930s, it would have run Adolf Hitler’s ads on his ‘solution to the Jewish problem.’
2022 Britain’s King Charles hosts his first state visit by welcoming President Cyril Ramaphosa at Buckingham Palace.
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