What happened on 22 November?

16 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. 1830 Earl Grey's premiership Grey forces through the Great Reform Act and abolishes slavery across the British empire.
5. 1963 Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson Great Society; Civil Rights Act (1964); Voting Rights Act; Vietnam escalation.
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. 1990 Thatcher resigns Wounded by Howe's resignation speech and short of victory in Heseltine's leadership challenge, Thatcher is told by her cabinet she cannot win and withdraws.
13. 1641 Parliament passes the Grand Remonstrance By eleven votes, the Commons passes a long catalogue of grievances against Charles I's government, presented to him on 1 December and printed for the public; the close vote shows P
14. 1963 Johnson sworn in on Air Force One Two hours after Kennedy's death, Johnson takes the oath in the cramped cabin at Dallas Love Field, with Jacqueline Kennedy beside him in her bloodstained suit.
15. 2003 Rose Revolution Bloodless protests in Georgia force out Eduard Shevardnadze, bringing the pro-Western Mikheil Saakashvili to power.
16. 1943 Cairo Conference Chiang meets Roosevelt and Churchill in Cairo; their declaration promises that Manchuria and Taiwan will be returned to China after Japan's defeat.