Today In History

Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2018. There are 39 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1963: John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.

ON THIS DATE

› 1906: The “SOS” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

› 1935: A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.

› 1954: The Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society.

› 1965: The musical “Man of La Mancha” opened on Broadway.

› 1967: The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

› 1977: Regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor Michael Callan is 83. Actor Allen Garfield is 79. Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 78. Actor Tom Conti is 77. Singer Jesse Colin Young is 77. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Little Steven) is 68. Rock musician Tina Weymouth (The Heads; Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club) is 68. Retired MLB All-Star Greg Luzinski is 68. Actress Lin Tucci is 67. Rock musician Lawrence Gowan is 62. Actor Richard Kind is 62. Actor Winsor Harmon is

55. Actor-turned-producer Brian Robbins is 55. Actor Stephen Geoffreys is 54. Rock musician Charlie Colin is 52. Actor Nicholas Rowe is 52. Actor Michael K. Williams is 52. Actor Mark Ruffalo is 51. International Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker is

51. Actress Sidse Babett Knudsen is 50. Country musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band) is 48. Actor Josh Cooke is 39. Actor-singer Tyler Hilton is 35. Actress Scarlett Johansson is 34. Actor Jamie Campbell Bower is

30. Singer Candice Glover (TV: “American Idol”) is

29. Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 29. Actor Dacre Montgomery is 24. Actress Mackenzie Lintz is 22.