"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help."

-- From the address President Kennedy never got to deliver in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963

On Nov. 22, 1718, English pirate Edward Teach -- better known as "Blackbeard" -- was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast.

In 1928, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed, in Paris.

In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.

In 1963, President John Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John Connally was seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.

Movie director Arthur Hiller is 86.

Actor Robert Vaughn is 77.

Astronaut Guion S. Bluford is 67.

Tennis player Billie Jean King is 66.

Rock musician Tina Weymouth is 59.

Tennis player Boris Becker is 42.

Musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band) is 39.

Actress Scarlett Johansson is 25.

Actor Alden Ehrenreich is 20.