22. November

The only real battle of the march. Georgia militia, many of them old men and boys, charged an entrenched Union brigade. 712 casualties (NPS), 650 of them Confederate.

The last German attempt to break through before winter, around the Flemish town the British would hold for the rest of the war. It destroyed most of the old regular British Army; Indian troops, just arrived from Marseille, filled gaps in the line.

Pan Am’s Martin M-130 flying boat left Alameda before a crowd and island-hopped to Manila in six days, using bases Pan Am had built on Midway, Wake and Guam. Passenger service followed in October 1936.

The first Games in the southern hemisphere, and the first boycotts: the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland over the Soviet invasion of Hungary, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon over Suez. At the close, the athletes walked in together rather than by nation for the first time.

Anastas Mikoyan, sent to soothe Castro, told him the short-range nuclear weapons Washington never knew about would also leave, citing a Soviet law against handing them to others that did not exist. The last warheads sailed in December.

On the ground at Love Field, before the flight back to Washington. Federal judge Sarah T. Hughes gave the oath: the only woman to swear in a president, and the only oath taken on a plane.

Shot at 12:30 p.m. as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza; he was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital half an hour later. The fourth president assassinated.

He signed the Civil Rights Act on 2 July 1964. For 14 months there was no vice president: the Constitution had no way to fill the office.

Released the day President Kennedy was shot. Robert Freeman’s half-lit black-and-white portrait on the sleeve was copied for years. It took over at number one from Please Please Me: the Beatles held the top of the album chart for 51 weeks in a row.

Thirty songs on four sides, most of them written in Rishikesh, often recorded by one Beatle with the others elsewhere. Richard Hamilton’s plain white sleeve was embossed and numbered, like a limited edition of millions.

After a year and a half of court battles over noise, British Airways and Air France began flying to JFK, the route Concorde was built for: London to New York in about three and a half hours.

Pixar’s first feature made entirely on computers, every frame rendered on a farm of Sun workstations. Within a decade hand-drawn animation had nearly vanished from Hollywood.

Seventh console generationXbox 360

High definition, online stores and downloadable games: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the Wii, which outsold both by giving up on graphics power for motion control.

Two goals early in the second half ended Argentina’s 36-match unbeaten run, and Saudi Arabia’s king declared a public holiday. Argentina did not lose again.