THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2021. There are 39 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Nov. 22, 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 arrest- ed. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as pres- ident.

On this date:

In 1718, English pirate Ed- ward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.

In 1906, the “S-O-S” dis- tress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraph- ic Convention in Berlin.

In 1914, the First Battle of Ypres (EE’-pruh) during World War I ended with an Allied vic- tory against Germany.

In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first transPacific airmail flight.

In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek (chang ky-shehk) met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.

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 Con- corde began on a trial basis.

In 1990, British Prime Min- ister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win reelection to 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 sus- pended economic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms embargo against the states of the former Yugoslavia.

In 2005, Angela Merkel (AHN’-geh-lah MEHR’-kuhl) took power as Germany’s first female chancellor.