TODAY IN HISTORY
the 326th day of 2018. There are 39 days left in the year. On this date in 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.
In 1906, the “S.O.S.” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
In 1914, the First Battle of Ypres during World War I ended with an Allied victory against Germany.
In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
In 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.
In 1954, the Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society.
In 1955, comic Shemp Howard of “Three Stooges” fame died in Hollywood at age 60.
In 1965, the musical “Man of La Mancha” opened on Broadway.
In 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.
In 1975, Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain.
In 1977, regular passenger service
between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis. In 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.
In 1995, acting swiftly to boost the Balkan peace accord, the U.N. Security Council suspended economic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms embargo against the states of the former Yugoslavia.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:
Actor Michael Callan is 83. Actor Allen Garfield is 79. Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 78. Actor Tom Conti and singer Jesse Colin Young are 77. Astronaut Guion Bluford is 76. International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Billie Jean King is 75. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Little Steven), rock musician Tina Weymouth (The Heads; Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club) and retired MLB All-Star Greg Luzinski are 68. Rock musician Lawrence Gowan and actor Richard Kind are 62. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis and alt-country singer Jason Ringenberg (Jason & the Scorchers) are 60. Actress Mariel Hemingway is 57. Actor Winsor Harmon and actor-turnedproducer Brian Robbins are 55. Actor Stephen Geoffreys is 54. Rock musician Charlie Colin, and actors Nicholas Rowe and Michael K. Williams are 52. Actor Mark Ruffalo and international Tennis Hall-of-Famer Boris Becker are 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”) and actor Alden Ehrenreich are 29. Actress Mackenzie Lintz is 22.