Today in History: November 22, John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas

Today is Friday, Nov. 22, the 327th time of 2024. There are 39 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was changeable to decease during a motorcade successful Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, riding successful the aforesaid car arsenic Kennedy, was earnestly wounded. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn successful arsenic president.

Also connected this date:

In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach — amended known arsenic “Blackbeard” — was killed during a conflict disconnected what is present North Carolina.

In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took disconnected from Alameda, California, carrying much than 100,000 pieces of message connected the archetypal trans-Pacific airmail flight.

In 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion successful history, stopping WBC titleholder Trevor Berbick successful the 2nd circular of their title bout successful Las Vegas.

In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to triumph reelection to the Conservative Party enactment connected the archetypal ballot, announced she would resign.

In 2005, Angela Merkel (AHN’-geh-lah MEHR’-kuhl) took bureau arsenic Germany’s archetypal pistillate chancellor.

In 2010, a panicked crush astatine a festival successful the Cambodian superior of Phnom Penh near immoderate 350 dormant and hundreds injured successful what the premier curate called the country’s biggest calamity since the 1970s reign of panic by the Khmer Rouge.

In 2017, Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb wide whose forces carried retired the worst massacre successful Europe since World War II, was convicted of genocide and different crimes by the United Nations’ Yugoslav warfare crimes tribunal and sentenced to beingness down bars.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Actor-filmmaker Terry Gilliam is 84.
• Hockey Hall of Famer Jacques Laperrière is 83.
• Astronaut Guion (GEYE’-uhn) Bluford is 82.
• Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 81.
• Rock musician-actor Steven Van Zandt is 74.
• Rock instrumentalist Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) is 74.
• Actor Richard Kind is 68.
• Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 66.
• Actor Mads Mikkelsen is 59.
• Actor Mark Ruffalo is 57.
• Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker is 57.
• Actor Scarlett Johansson is 40.
• Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 35.
• Actor Dacre Montgomery is 30.
• Actor Auliʻi Cravalho is 24.