TODAY IN HISTORY

On Nov. 22, 1718, English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — was killed during a battle.

In 1906, the “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted

at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

In 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas.

In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win reelection to the Conservative Party leadership

on the first ballot, announced she would resign.

In 2005, Angela Merkel took power as Germany’s first female chancellor.

In 2014, a 12-year-old Black boy, Tamir Rice, was shot and mortally wounded by police outside a Cleveland recreation center after brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun.