Portal:Television/Anniversaries/November/November 22

Events

• 1963 - All three major U.S. networks start pre-emptions for a week following the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The pre-emptions unofficially begin a few minutes after Kennedy was shot; on the top-rated American soap opera As the World Turns, Nancy Hughes (Helen Wagner) was in the middle of a discussion with Grandpa (Santos Ortega) about Bob's (Don Hastings) decision to invite Lisa (Eileen Fulton) to Thanksgiving dinner. Walter Cronkite interrupted Wagner mid-speech to deliver the bulletin. As the World Turns continued for one more scene (at that time, the show was transmitted live) before Cronkite cut in permanently. News of the assassination, and later the funeral procession, were the first television broadcasts across the Pacific Ocean (via Relay 1 satellite).
• 1968 - William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols share the first interracial kiss on US television in the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren".

Television series debuts

• 2009 - Super Inggo at ang Super Tropa on ABS-CBN (Philippines)
• 2009 - The Haunted on Animal Planet (United States)

Television series endings

• 1993 - Conan the Adventurer in syndication (United States)

Births

• 1936 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
• 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
• 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American television personality and advertising executive
• 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress.
• 1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
• 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress

Deaths

• 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
• 1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)