Today In History – Nov. 22 – 2005 – Angela Merkel Becomes First Female Chancellor Of Germany

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

1873 Death of Horatio Spafford’s four daughters in a shipping accident when the French ship Ville du Havre sinks. In response, he will pen the hymn “It Is Well with My Soul.”

1914 Because of his success as a Protestant evangelist in Petrograd, Basil Malof is sentenced to prison in Siberia, a sentence commuted a few days later to banishment from Russia.

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.

1939 Nurse Dorothy Davis is appointed as a Nazarene missionary to Swaziland. Because of her role in training Swazi nurses, she will become known as “the Mother of Swazi Nurses.” She will be honored with the Member of the British Empire award.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade 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.

Today’s Historical Events
Today in Film & TV
1995 “Toy Story”, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, is released.

Today in Music
1955 RCA Records make its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract.

Today in Sport
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs

Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
2017 Vanellope Wilkins, born with her heart outside her body, is first UK baby to survive birth and operations to reinsert her heart.