YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2014. There are 39 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1718: English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — is killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.

1862: Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Forza del Destino” has its world premiere in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1914: The First Battle of Ypres during World War I ends with an Allied victory against Germany.

1928: “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel has its premiere at the Paris Opera.

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.

1954: The Humane Society of the United States is incorporated as the National Humane Society.

1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same open car as the president, is seriously wounded. Suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: An 18-month old girl abandoned in an elevator at the Youngstown City Jail is turned over to the Mahoning County Children Services Board while attempts are made to identify the woman who left the child there.

More than a dozen angry residents tell the Warren Board of Education that they will continue working to defeat school board levies if Warren G. Harding becomes the city’s only high school in 1990, as is planned.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon rules that Youngstown city officials lack the authority to fire city employees who live outside the city, saying that while the Civil Service Commission has a rule requiring residency, it does not prescribe a mechanism for enforcement.

1974: Workers at General Motors Corp.’s Vega assembly plant at Lordstown are facing their second layoff in two months, with this one beginning Dec. 14 and running through Jan. 2, because of the slow market in small cars.

A prospective used-car buyer robs Buick Youngstown salesman David Vranich of his wallet and $250, ties him up and forces him from a Buick Estate Wagon that they had taken on a test drive.

Farrell police vote 13-4 by secret ballot to refuse to patrol night time basketball games at Farrell High School after a dangerous confrontation between more than 200 unruly fans and a half dozen police officers.

1964: Sgt. 1st Class Robert M. George of Youngstown is named “Aviation Soldier of the Year” for outstanding performance as flight operations chief in Vietnam.

Aheavy snow squall coming off Lake Erie dumps 8 inches of snow in Conneaut and 5 to 7 inches in Ashtabula.

Memorial services are held in Washington, Dallas and Boston to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1939: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Page of 1101 Youngstown Road SE, Warren, are killed in an automobile accident near Randolph, Portage County.

Of four Ohio cities reporting results of their Community Fund drives, Warren is the only one to exceed its goal, raising $99,518 on a goal of $96,629.

The Supreme Court rules that municipalities exercising their controls over public safety, health and convenience cannot abridge freedom of speech and press. The cases involved attempts to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from distributing religious tracts.