Today is Saturday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2017. There are 22 days left in the year.

December 9, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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 would later become known as the Heisman Trophy.

1962: The Petrified Forest in Arizona is designated a national park.

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

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

2016:The White House says President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyber-attacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. withdraws his name from consideration for membership on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee after learning that the committee chairman, Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., wouldn’t support him.

U.S. Sen. John Glenn says that it’s unfair for the federal government to pit cities against cities in competition for the Pentagon’s defense accounting center that would bring the winning city 7,000 jobs.

Youngstown police say Richard Ishee, 53, of Warren was shot to death in a truck on the city’s South Side, making him the city’s 49th homicide of the year (compared with 53 at the same time in 1991).

1977: Mayor-elect J. Phillip Richley announces that Harold Stein will be his law director; J. Ronald Pittman, director of Community Development, and William R. Shranko, executive assistant.

The Seventh District Court of Appeals upholds a ruling by Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon that denied blue-collar workers at Youngstown State University their own union, separate from the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.

Ernest Haydu, newly elected president of the Greater Girard Area Chamber of Commerce, names Joanne Palowitz, owner of Angelique Salon, the first woman member of the board of directors.

1967:At least 33 inmates of Mahoning County Jail donate blood for Mark Garramone, 5, of Hubbard, who needs 63 pints of blood to produce serum for treatment of a rare kidney ailment.

Youngstown’s street fire-alarm boxes will be out of operation for two days while the central alarm station is moved from City Hall to the downtown fire station.

More than 800 city employees meet at Teamsters Hall to rally support for the 0.5 percent increase in the city income tax that will appear on the Dec. 14 special ballot.

1942: Frank Sinkwich of Youngstown, backfield star from the University of Georgia football team, receives the John Heisman trophy from Joseph Taylor, president of the New York Downtown Athletic Club. Sinkwich receives the award in his Marine Corps uniform. He will report for duty after his graduation in March.

Herman Horowitz, a vending-machine operator, is arrested by the city fire inspector involving improper storage of about 150 gallons of gasoline at his Crandall Avenue home and garage.

Uninspected and possibly diseased meat is being bootlegged into the city at night by some butchers, warns Dr. Robert Mossman, city health commissioner.