This Day in Failure: November 22

2002: Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria and move the event to London after news that the African nation will host the event sparks deadly riots.

1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot.

1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy, riding in a motorcade through the city, is fatally wounded by three shots allegedly fired by Lee Harvey Oswald while the car passes near the Texas School Book Depository.