Years ago

Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, President John F. Kennedy is shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.

In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — is killed during a battle off the Virginia coast. In 1909, actress Helen Hayes makes her Broadway debut at age 9, playing a “little mime” in the Victor Herbert musical comedy “Old Dutch.” In 1928, “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel is first performed, 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. In 1965, the musical “Man of La Mancha” opens in New York. In 1967, the U.N. Security Council approves Resolution 242, which calls for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly calls on adversaries to recognize Israel’s right to exist. In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announces her resignation.

November 22, 1984: A tentative contract between the International Union of Electrical Workers Local 717 and the Packard Electric Division of General Motors provides lifetime job and income security for the current 8,400 hourly employees and establishes a lower wage for new hirees.

Dade Air Charters and its affiliate, B.A.S. Airlines will move corporate headquarters from the Beaver County Airport to the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

The first Chevrolet Nova built by General Motors Corp. and the Japanese auto maker Toyota will role off a California assembly line Dec. 4, GM Chairman Roger Smith says.

November 22, 1969: School superintendents from six northeast Ohio counties say a state requirement that school districts provide vocational training for at least 40 percent of the state’s junior and seniors by 1974 is unrealistic.

Mahoning County commissioners, faced with a possible loss of 1969 revenue, have notified all county departments that 1970 appropriations will be based on the 1969 figures, with no increases.

Fourteen people are arrested after a crowd of nearly 200 storms New Castle City Hall after two off-duty policemen shut down a dance at the YWCA because of several minor incidents.

Atty. R.C. Westenfield of Niles, one-time assistant dean of the old law school at Youngstown College, is appointed to the board of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.

November 22, 1959: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan recommends that the city income tax be increased from 9 mills to 1 percent and that city employees be given a 5 percent pay increase and city-paid hospitalization.

The civil, electrical and mechanical engineering curriculums of the William Rayen School of Engineering at Youngstown University have receive accreditation from the Engineer’s Council for Professional Development.

Hotel Pick-Ohio resumes full service after 120 of its employees, members of Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 212, end an eight-hour walkout.

November 22, 1934: Elmer E. Martin, condemned Warren murderer, says he is ready to die in Ohio’s electric chair and asks the court to stop any proceedings aimed at setting aside his conviction or winning him a new trial.

Mahoning County’s share of a proposed 3 percent Ohio state sales tax is estimated at $1.6 million by the state tax commissioner. The estimate for Trumbull County is $789,000.