TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Nov. 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded; a suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1906

The “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

1914

The First Battle of Ypres during World War I ended with an Allied victory against Germany.

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.

1943

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48.

1954

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

1955

Comic Shemp Howard of “Three Stooges” fame died in Hollywood at age 60.

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.