Today is Friday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2017. There are 23 days left in the year.

Today is Friday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2017. There are 23 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1940: The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins, 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game.

1941: The United States enters World War II as Congress declares war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1962: Typographers go on a 114-day strike against four New York City newspapers.

1980: Rock star and former Beatle John Lennon is shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan.

1987: President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev sign a treaty at the White House calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

2007: Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, in her first presidential endorsement, backs Barack Obama’s White House bid during appearances in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

2016: John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, dies in Columbus at age 95.

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1992: The Federal Aviation Administration approves the transfer of the Youngstown Regional Airport from the city to the new Western Reserve Port Authority.

Ohio Bancorp Chairman Thomas R. Hollern said the company was formed 10 years ago to preserve the identity of the Dollar Saving & Trust Co. in Youngstown and other smaller banks, but times have changed.

U.S. Rep. Tom Ridge, R-Erie, says he will meet with John K. Castle, chairman of Castle Harlan Inc., the New York investment banking firm that owns Sharon Steel Corp., where Ridge will urge Castle to meet with Shenango Valley residents.

1977: Two men are found dead in the Money Arcade on Hillman Street, the victims of an apparent robbery and execution in a building that housed $30,000 in stolen goods. Dead are Shed Bell, 56, and Ambers Thomas, 19.

Some 110 technical workers at the Youngstown Hospital Association join the four-week-old strike by 1,292 service and maintenance employees.

Dr. Gar Alperovitz, director of the Exploratory Project for Economic Alternatives, says a plan to rekindle the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. could be a showcase of modern employee ownership.

1967: U.S. Bankruptcy Referee Joseph Kaiser says Broumas Theaters Inc., which operates the State Theater, the Newport and the theaters in Lincoln Knolls, Liberty and Boardman plazas, will be declared bankrupt.

Two teenage attendants at the Gastown service station on Mahoning Avenue face robbers’ guns while a police cruiser on routine patrol drives by.

Dr. Samuel Sheppard, convicted of the second- degree murder of his wife and released after serving nine years in prison, applies to become a Peace Corps volunteer.

1942: Sheriff Ralph Elser tells Mahoning County commissioners that unless jail food bills that have gone unpaid since May are paid, he will release all prisoners except those being held on felony charges.

Albert Kahn, designer of the North Side unit of Youngstown Hospital and a founder of Truscon Steel, dies at his Detroit home, 32 days after the death of his brother Julius.

Fire Chief Michael Melillo closes 17 night clubs and private clubs, which he said have fire hazards, to prevent a repetition of Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire.