Today is Sunday, Dec. 21, the 356th day of 2008. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter will

Today is Sunday, Dec. 21, the 356th day of 2008. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter will arrive at 7:04 a.m. Eastern time. The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset. On this date in 1620, Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Mass.

In 1937, the first feature-length animated cartoon in Technicolor, Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” has its world premiere in Los Angeles. In 1940, author F. Scott Fitzgerald dies in Hollywood, Calif., at age 44. In 1945, Gen. George S. Patton dies in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident. In 1948, the state of Eire, or Ireland, passes an act declaring itself a republic. In 1968, Apollo 8 is launched on a mission to orbit the moon. In 1976, the Liberian-registered tanker Argo Merchant breaks apart near Nantucket Island, off Massachusetts, almost a week after running aground, spilling 71‚Ñ2 million gallons of oil into the North Atlantic. In 1988, 270 people are killed when a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.

December 21, 1983: A 24-year-old Warren man pleads innocent at his arraignment on charges of aggravated robbery of the Union Savings and Trust West Market Street branch office. The loot, less than $1,000, was recovered in a car the robber commandeered from an elderly Warren woman.

General Motors and Toyota agree to sign an antitrust agreement before launching a joint effort to produce a new line of cars at a California plant.

Dr. James A. Giannini, a Youngstown psychiatrist, is appointed to the National Rape Prevention and Control Advisory Commission.

December 21, 1968: James P. Griffin, District 25 director, United Steelworkers of America, will have two opponents when he seeks reelection in February, Frank Leseganich, president of Local 1262, and Robert J. Catlin, staff representative and president of the Trumbull County AFL-CIO Council.

A former Youngstown man is arrested in Cleveland for peddling phony $20 bills. He is charged with selling 150 bills to a Cleveland policeman for $600,

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will seek bids for building the $2.7 million Crab Creek flood control project.

December 21, 1958: Youngstown University’s basketball team shatters a single game scoring record, routing Marietta, 112 to 56, at South Field House. Jim Cramer was the top scorer with 20 points.

Downtown Youngstown is a maze of snarled traffic, crowded stores and restaurants, full parking lots and jammed sidewalks as the Christmas shopping rush moves into its final stage.

Youngstown’s Junior Achievement presents its first live telecast, a half-hour show over WFMJ-TV.

December 21, 1933: Attorney W. P. Barnum. Youngstown area private flyer, says that an adequate municipal airport would draw to the city at least $150,000 worth of business annually.

In anticipation of issuance of beer licenses to city night clubs, Youngstown Fire Chief Harry Callan begins fire safety inspections of the premises.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority proposes that Morris W. Scheibel be named supervising architect for Youngstown’s $3 million slum clearance program.