TODAY IN HISTORY: Assassination of JFK and … (Nov. 22nd)

Fifty years ago today on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. He was struck by two bullets to the neck and the skull. Less than an hour and ½ after the President’s death, 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was captured and charged with the murder and the nation was left to mourn.
Also on this day in history…

In 1906, the Morse Code signal S.O.S. was adopted as the international distress symbol.
In 1943 Lebanon gained independence from France.
In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly granted the Palestine Liberation Organisation observer status.
In 2005, Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.