On this day, Nov. 22
1718 English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.
1906 The “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
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.
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kaishek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan.
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 arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
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.
1975 Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain.
1977 Regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis.
1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election to the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced she would resign.
2005 Angela Merkeltook power as Germany’s first female chancellor.
2010 Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, leaving some 350 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.
2012 In a series of constitutional amendments, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi granted himself sweeping new powers and placed himself above judicial oversight.
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. (A grand jury declined to indict either the patrolman who fired the fatal shot or a training officer.)
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. (Nassar would be sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison on those charges.)
Today’s birthdays: Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam, 82. Actor Tom Conti, 81. Singer Jesse Colin Young, 81. Astronaut Guion Bluford, 80. International Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King, 79. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Little Steven), 72. Rock musician Tina Weymouth, 72. Retired MLB All-Star Greg Luzinski, 72. Rock musician Lawrence Gowan, 66. Actor Richard Kind, 66. Actor Jamie Lee Curtis, 64. Alt-country singer Jason Ringenberg (Jason & the Scorchers), 64. Actor Mariel Hemingway, 61. Actor Winsor Harmon, 59. Actor-turnedproducer Brian Robbins, 59. Actor Stephen Geoffreys, 58. Rock musician Charlie Colin, 56. Actor Nicholas Rowe, 56. Actor Mark Ruffalo, 55. International Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker, 55. Actor Sidse Babett Knudsen, 54. Country musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band), 52. Actor Josh Cooke, 43. Actor-singer Tyler Hilton, 39. Actor Scarlett Johansson, 38. Actor Jamie Campbell Bower, 34. Singer Candice Glover (TV: “American Idol”), 33. Actor Alden Ehrenreich, 33. Actor Dacre Montgomery, 28. Actor Mackenzie Lintz, 26.