What happened on 22 November?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1963 Assassination of JFK President Kennedy is shot in Dallas; the trauma reshapes the American 1960s.
2. 2005 Angela Merkel's chancellorship First female German chancellor; physicist from the GDR; defines European politics for 16 years (2005-2021).
3. 1890 Born: Charles de Gaulle Leader of the Free French; founding president of the Fifth Republic.
4. 1963 Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson Great Society; Civil Rights Act (1964); Voting Rights Act; Vietnam escalation.
5. 1830 Earl Grey's premiership Grey forces through the Great Reform Act and abolishes slavery across the British empire.
6. 1995 Toy Story released First entirely computer-animated feature film.
7. 1967 UN Resolution 242: land for peace The Security Council unanimously adopts the formula every Middle East negotiation has cited since: Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the war, in exchange for every st
8. 1928 Ravel's Bolero premieres One-movement orchestral crescendo - Ravel's most-performed work.
9. 1869 Born: André Gide Nobel laureate; modernist novelist.
10. 1819 Born: George Eliot Pen name of Mary Ann Evans; English novelist of Middlemarch.
11. 2004 Orange Revolution Mass protests in Ukraine overturn a rigged presidential election, a landmark of post-Soviet 'colour revolutions' resisting Russian influence.
12. 2003 Rose Revolution Bloodless protests in Georgia force out Eduard Shevardnadze, bringing the pro-Western Mikheil Saakashvili to power.