YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, Dec. 9, the 344th day of 2016. There are 22 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1935: The Downtown Athletic Club of New York honors college football player Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago with the DAC Trophy, which later became known as the Heisman Trophy.

1965: “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the first animated TV special featuring characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, is first broadcast on CBS.

1987: The first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, begins as riots break out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response.

1992: Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separation.

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1991: Contributions are lagging in the Salvation Army Red Kettle Drive as time runs out, with Mahoning County having reached only $27,000 of its $80,000 goal.

Sandra Weierman of Warren appears on the Oprah Winfrey show as one of the stepmothers in a segment on stepmothers and stepdaughters.

Mahoning County commissioners want to prohibit overtime for supervisors in the Department of Human Services after having to pay $16,750 in overtime for work done by supervisors during a strike by union workers.

1976: Dr. Arthur R. Curran, 58, a professor of management at Youngstown State University, a career officer in the Air Force and a World War II flying ace, is being considered by President-elect Jimmy Carter as Secretary of the Air Force.

Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Howard W. Lyon issues a 10-day stay that will allow Treasure Island and Fisher Big Wheel department stores to operate on Sundays until the Supreme Court rules on Pennsylvania’s “Blue Laws.”

Federal Judge Joseph P. Kinneary instructs Secretary of State Ted Brown to proceed with certification of Ohio’s 25 Democratic presidential electors, rejecting a claim by the Republican, American and U.S. Labor parties that President-elect Jimmy Carter’s victory in Ohio was tainted.

1966: The Mahoning Red Cross is assigned a quota of $170,000 as the district’s share of a national war chest of $50 million for the American Red Cross.

An application is filed with the Department of Agriculture to unite the Youngstown, Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania milk marketing districts into what would be the nation’s second-largest milk marketing district.

The Timken Foundation of Canton gives a $750,000 challenge gift to Mount Union College toward a physical education building.

A total of 46 windows at four city schools are smashed overnight by vandals. Hardest hit was Kirkmere Elementary, where 26 windows were broken.

Youngstown’s Intelligence and Security Squad arrests a 43-year-old Wheeling, W. Va., man after raiding a vacant South Side storeroom that was being used as a mail drop for a nationwide smut racket.

1941: Louisville High School, 1941 champions, and Boardman High School, the runner-up, furnish more than half the players on the 10th annual Tri County League first and second football teams. Boardman’s first-team players are Albert Pastor, John Purucker and George Sullivan.

Youngstown Country Club plans a new variety of old-fashioned hospitality for its members during the winter. A real southern “plantation dinner” will be served every week for members and guests.