November 22nd, 2008

Today in History

1718:
Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.

1986:
Mike Tyson knocks-out Trevor Berbick in a round 2 fight, becoming the youngest world heavyweight-boxing champion (20 years, 4 months old).

1943:
Lebanon gains independence from France.

1989:
In west Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

1942:
The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.