Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2015

Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2015. There are 39 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1515: Mary of Guise, the second wife of King James V and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, is born in Lorraine, France.

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

1890: French president Charles de Gaulle is born in Lille, France.

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.

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.

1944: The MGM movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” starring Judy Garland, has its world premiere in St. Louis.

1955: Comic Shemp Howard of “Three Stooges” fame dies in Hollywood at age 60.

1963: The 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same open car as Kennedy, is seriously wounded; suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.

1965: The musical “Man of La Mancha” opens on Broadway.

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan marries Sara Lownds (the marriage lasted 12 years).

1975: Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain.

1989: Rene Mouawad is killed by a bomb after serving 17 days as president of Lebanon.

1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announces she would resign.

2005: An Arab-American college student, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, is convicted by a federal jury in Alexandria, Va., of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush. (Abu Ali was later sentenced to life in prison.)

Angela Merkel takes power as Germany’s first female chancellor.

2010: Thousands of people stampede during a festival in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, leaving some 350 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.

2014:Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice is shot and mortally wounded by police outside a Cleveland recreation center after brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun. (A grand jury is deciding whether criminal charges should be filed against two officers.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: A Mahoning County Common Pleas jury awards $1.6 million to the family of Joseph J. Bucik, 75, who was struck and killed by an unmarked patrol car being driven by a drunken policeman.

The Ohio Supreme Court rejects former U.S. Rep. Donald Lukens conviction on a charge of having sex with a teenage girl while he was a congressman. The Cincinnati-area Republican was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fiend $500.

A federal jury in Akron rules against a female worker in the Youngstown Waterwater Treatment Plant who sought $150,000 in a suit alleging sexual harassment by male co-workers.

1975: Congressman James V. Stanton of the 20th District tells Mahoning Valley Democratic leaders that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1976.

Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus (Ray King and Eleanor Scannell) arrive in downtown Youngstown on a sleigh atop a giant float, the last unit in the annual Christmas parade that included horseback riders, the Harold Ditmansen Clown Band and bands from East, North and South high schools, as well as Canfield, Girard, Chaney, Cardinal Mooney and Fitch.

Three armed, masked men hold up the Logan Way branch of Union National Bank in Liberty Township, escaping with $7,000.

1965: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce urges City Council to slow its effort to award a franchise for cable TV in the city to allow time for a thorough study all proposals.

Dr. Harold H. Teitelbaum, superintendent of the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium since 1950, dies at St. Elizabeth Hospital of a heart attack.

In Warren, for the first time in three years, traffic moves in both directions on four major downtown streets that were formerly one-way.

Columbiana’s Golden Link Class of Grace United Church of Christ, will sponsor the annual Christmas season “Singspiration,” with proceeds used to buy presents for residents of the Columbiana County Home.

1940: SWOC unions in the Mahoning Valley are elated at the election of Philip Murray as president of the CIO. They expect Murray, who came to Youngstown during the worst days of the SWOC “Little Steel “ strike of 1937, to remain head of SWOC.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. plans an increase in semi-finished steel by 200,000 tons yearly when its billet mill is rebuilt.

The Youngstown Players open a production of Clare Kummer’s “Her Master’s Voice,” directed by Theodore Viehman.