On Nov. 22, 1718, pirate Edward Teach, better known as “Blackbeard,” was killed during a battle.

In 1906, the “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.

In 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot to death in Dallas; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.

In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign.

In 2005, Angela Merkel took power as Germany’s first female chancellor.

In 2014, a 12-year-old Black boy, Tamir Rice, was shot and mortally wounded by police after brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun.