YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 22

Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2018. There are 39 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

In 1906, the “S-O-S” distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.

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. Lyricist Lorenz Hart dies in New York at age 48.

In 1954, the Humane Society of the United States is incorporated as the National Humane Society.

In 1955, comic Shemp Howard of “Three Stooges” fame dies in Hollywood at age 60.

In 1965, the musical “Man of La Mancha” opens on Broadway.

In 1977, regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde begins on a trial basis.

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1993: Copperweld Steel and its parent, CSC Industries Inc., file for bankruptcy, unable to continue financially without its Japanese support.

The Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District is ready to assume operation of the 275-acre Mahoning County Experimental Farm across from the Canfield Fairgrounds when the state pulls its staff and funding.

A statewide ballot issue to legalize riverboat gambling in Ohio that proponents hoped to get on the May primary ballot may be delayed until November 1994.

1978: Evidence found at a Sohio service station in Milton Township indicates that Donna Henderson happened upon the murder of her husband, Thomas, and was bludgeoned and shot from behind as she knelt beside his bullet-pierced body. Henderson, 32, had managed the station for only 14 days.

Salem City Council votes unanimously to instruct Mayor Frank Dauria to withdraw from a cooperative agreement with the Columbiana County Metropolitan Housing Authority to build a $1.9 million low-income housing project in the city.

Bishop James W. Malone of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese, and Bishop John H. Burt of the Cleveland Episcopal Diocese, formerly of Youngstown, receive the Thomas Merton award in Pittsburgh in recognition of their efforts to revive closed facilities of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

1968: The Youngstown Society for the Blind will build a new $100,000 building on Glenwood Avenue.

The new South Range Local School District will supplant the Greenford and North Lima school districts Jan. 1 when all assets and liabilities of the old districts will become property of South Range.

The Mahoning County VFW Council, representing 18 posts with a membership of 2,646, goes on record opposing movement of the Man on the Monument from Central Square.

1943: Raymond Burkey of New Middletown, driver of a Youngstown Municipal Railway bus, thwarted an attempted holdup on his bus when he struck a would-be bandit over the head with an icescraper and pushed the man off his bus.

Trinity Methodist Church is filled for the Sunday service celebrating its 140th anniversary. Dr. Schuyler Garth and three prominent church leaders review the history of the oldest Methodist church in the district.

Mary Grace Desimone and Albert Beraduce portray the leading characters in “Thumbs Up,” a play about problems on the home front being presented by East High School’s January class of 1944.