BITS OF HISTORY (NOVEMBER 22)

1943: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan.

1963: US President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, aged 46.

1975: Juan Carlos was sworn in as the first Spanish king since 1931. General Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain since 1939, had died two days earlier.

1991: The UN Security Council picked Egyptian deputy prime minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali to succeed Javier Perez de Cuellar as UN secretary-general.

2005: Angela Merkel was elected Germany's first woman chancellor by parliament.