Chicago Daily Tribune

ON NOVEMBER 22 ...

In 1718 English pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle off the North Carolina coast.

In 1819 Mary Ann Evans, the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, was born in Chilvers Coton, England.

In 1890 Charles de Gaulle, who would become a French general, war hero and president, was born in Lille, France.

In 1906 the SOS signal for ships in distress was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

In 1943 President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures to defeat Japan in World War II.

In 1954 the Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society.

In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as his successor.

In 1967 the U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it captured in 1967, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

In 1990Margaret Thatcher resigned as Britain’s prime minister after failing to win re-election to the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot.

In 1993 Mexico’s Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In 1998 the CBS News program“60 Minutes” aired videotape of Dr. Jack Kevorkian administering lethal drugs to a terminally ill patient.

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 ended up winning a revote the following month.

In 2014 Tamir Rice, a 12year-old who was playing with a pellet gun that resembled a semi-automatic pistol, was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer.

In 2016 coastal residents in Japan were ordered to flee to higher ground after a magnitude 7.4earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, home to the nuclear plant thatwas destroyed by a huge tsunami following an earthquake in2011 that killed about 18,000 people.