In History – JFK assassination

TODAY IN HISTORY - 11/22:

1955 - RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1961 - Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1963 - Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas

1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
2009 - 36th American Music Award: Taylor Swift & Michael Jackson win

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, Los Angeles California, actress (Anything But Love, Halloween)
1961 - Mariel Hemingway, Ketchum Id, actress (Personal Best, Civil Wars)
1967 - Boris Becker, Leimen Germany, tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)
1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1984 - Scarlett Johansson, New York City, New York, American actress (The Prestige)

GOODBYE TO:

1980 - Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87
1993 - Bill Bixby, US actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59
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