TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS FRIDAY, NOV. 22, the 326th day of 2019. There are 39 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: 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 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.
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 1955, comic Shemp Howard of “Three Stooges” fame died in Hollywood at age 60.
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 1977, regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis.
In 1980, death claimed actress Mae West at her Hollywood residence at age 87.
In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win reelection of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced she would resign.
In 2004, tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev, denouncing Ukraine’s presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of their reformist candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, who won a revote the following month.
In 2005, Angela Merke took power as Germany’s first female chancellor.
In 2017, former sports doctor Larry Nassar, accused of molesting at least 125 girls and young women while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of sexual assault.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 79. International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Billie Jean King is 76. Rock musicianactor Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Little Steven), rock musician Tina Weymouth (The Heads; Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club) and retired MLB AllStar Greg Luzinski are 69. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 61. Actress Mariel Hemingway is 58. Actor Mark Ruffalo and International Tennis Hall-of-Famer Boris Becker are 52. Country musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band) is 49. Actor Josh Cooke is 40. Actor-singer Tyler Hilton is 36. Actress Scarlett Johansson is 35. Actor Jamie Campbell Bower is 31.
— Associated Press