Today is Monday, Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2004. There are 39 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2004. There are 39 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, President Kennedy is shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same limousine as Kennedy, is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.
In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is killed during a battle off the Virginia coast. In 1906, the "S-O-S" distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. In 1928, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel makes its debut in Paris. In 1935, a flying boat, the "China Clipper," takes off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight. In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. In 1943, lyricist Lorenz Hart dies in New York at age 48. In 1975, Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain.
November 22, 1979: Crown Airways, a commuter airline that operates under contract with USAir, will decide in about two weeks whether to begin daily service between Youngstown and Pittsburgh.
Niles Law Director Mitchell Shaker says the city is prepared to sue RMI, one of the Niles area's largest employers, to recover what Shaker says is an "enormous" unpaid water bill.
Two male strippers are fined $150 each and given suspended jail sentences of 60 days on charges of pandering obscenity during a performance at the Theatrical Show Lounge.
November 22, 1964: Sgt. 1st Class Robert M. George of Youngstown is named "Aviation Soldier of the Year" for outstanding performance as a flight operations chief in Vietnam.
A 99-year-old man accused of fatally beating a 92-year-old blind patient at a home for the aged near New Castle is ordered committed to a state mental institution.
November 22, 1954: Suggested price for the 1955 Lincoln and Lincoln Capri models will be the same in 1955 as in 1954: Lincoln Custom four-door sedan, $3,563; Capri four-door sedan, $3,752; Custom sport coupe, $3,666; Capri sport coupe, $3,910; Capri convertible, $4,071.
A 24-year-old Cleveland man appearing before Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden Jr. on forgery charges chooses 1 to 20 years in prison over an offer of probation rather than "squeal" on his accomplice.
Squads of volunteers armed with shotguns slaughter about 3,000 ducks, gulls and other water birds in an act of mercy near Victoria, British Columbia. The birds are saturated in heavy fuel oil that leaked from a U.S. freighter that went aground, leaving them unable to fly, or even to dive for food.
Toll collectors for the Eastgate section of the Ohio Turnpike begin a week of classes at the Valley Park Drive-In Hotel on Wick Avenue in Youngstown.
November 22, 1929: A U.S. district attorney in Cleveland describes Frank Cunningham, Campbell's police chief, as the "overlord of the bootleggers" after Cunningham is indicted in federal court.
Michael Lake of Belmont Avenue is fined $25 in Youngstown Municipal Court on a charge of allowing his 15-year-old son to drive his automobile. It is the first local case enforcing the 16-year-old age limit for drivers.
James A. Campbell, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., returns from several days in the East in conference with business leaders to proclaim that business conditions are sound and that panicky selling on the stock market is passing. He says there will be no reduction in the wages of steel workers.