Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2018. There are 39 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight: On Nov. 22, 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.
On this date:
In 1906, the “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
In 1914, the First Battle of Ypres during World War I ended with an Allied victory 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 trans-Pacific airmail flight.
Today’s birthdays: Actor Michael Callan is 83. Actor Allen Garfield is 79. Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 78. Actor Tom Conti is 77. Singer Jesse Colin Young is 77.
Thought for today: “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” — Charles de Gaulle (born this date in 1890, died 1970).
— Associated Press
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