Today is Sunday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2014. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives

Today is Sunday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2014. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 6:03 p.m. Eastern time.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1620: Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower go ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1864: During the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman conclude their “March to the Sea,” which had begun in Atlanta on Nov. 15 and ends with the capture of Savannah, Georgia.

1879: The Henrik Ibsen play “A Doll’s House” premieres at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen.

1913: The first newspaper crossword puzzle, billed as a “Word-Cross Puzzle,” is published in the New York World.

1914: The first feature-length silent film comedy, Mack Sennett’s “Tillie’s Punctured Romance,” starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin, premieres.

The U.S. government begins requiring passport applicants to provide photographs of themselves.

1937: Walt Disney’s first animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

1942: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Williams v. North Carolina, rules 6-2 that all states have to recognize divorces granted in Nevada.

1945: Gen. George S. Patton dies in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident.

1958: Charles de Gaulle is elected to a seven-year term as the first president of the Fifth Republic of France.

1968: Apollo 8 is launched on a mission to orbit the moon.

1971: The U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General.

1976: The Liberian-registered tanker Argo Merchant breaks apart near Nantucket Island, off Massachusetts, almost a week after running aground, spilling 7.5 million gallons of oil into the North Atlantic.

1988: Two hundred and seventy people are killed when a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Mary Rebhan, 25, of Hollywood, Fla., wife of Jeff Rebhan of Warren, tells reporters in Panama City that she and another women were held hostage at gunpoint in an airport terminal by a group of Noriega loyalists, who used them as human shield when U.S. soldiers arrived.

Robert Tieche, Canfield’s fire chief for six years, becomes the first chief of the Cardinal Joint Fire District.

The lack of sanitary sewers could hinder attempts by three Lorain County businessmen to build a $3 million marina at the state park at Lake Milton.

1974: A search party of 75 to 100 security personnel and supervisors from the Lordstown General Motors plant scour a section of Canfield Township near the home of Benjamin Marsh searching for the weapon used to kill him, his wife and a daughter.

Two men, one masked and both armed, rob a teller at the Belmont Avenue office of People’s Bank of $2,000.

Youngstown bomb squad officers detonate a live 45-inch rocket found in a railroad car filled with scrap metal at the U.S. Steel Ohio Works.

1964: A group of college professors and students from Oberlin College arrives at Ripley, Miss., to work over the Christmas holiday rebuilding a rural Antioch Baptist Church damaged in a fire.

A 37-year-old Warren man and 31-year-old Youngstown man, both with police records, are arrested by Austintown police running from the Commercial Motor Freight Warehouse on Meridian Road. Several cartons of freight were found stacked near the warehouse door.

1939: Henry G. Dalton, 77-year-old chairman of the board of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is in “extremely critical” condition in Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, after undergoing an emergency appendectomy.

Downtown Youngstown Protestant churches will sponsor a late-Christmas Eve service, the first of its kind, in First Christian church. The service will begin at 10:45 p.m.

Youngstown Planning Engineer Paul Boucherle outlines for City Council a proposed ordinance to restrict junk yards in the city to Industrial B zoning areas.