TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1963

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, riding in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded; suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1935

A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000pieces 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.

1961

Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds was named Most Valuable Player of the National League.

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.

1980

Death claimed film star Mae West at her Hollywood residence at age 87 and former House Speaker John W. McCormack in Dedham, Mass. at age 88.

1990

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced she would resign.