November 22, 1963 (Friday)
- The Beatles' second U.K. album, With The Beatles, is released
- John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy, 46, is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President. All television coverage for the next four days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.
- Died: Aldous Huxley, 69, English novelist; C. S. Lewis, 64, Irish novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist
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