Historical Events for 22nd November 2018

1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1851 – Opera “La Perle Du BrĂ©sil” is produced (Paris)
1899 – -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1942 – Adolf Hitler orders Rommel’s Africa Korps to fight to the last man
1943 – RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1945 – Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1963 – American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1989 – Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest
2015 – Kyle Busch driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

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