December 3
1818 - Illinois became the 21st state.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States by the Electoral College.
1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the United States.
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
1919 - French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
1948 - The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
1964 - Police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley who had stormed the administration building the previous day and staged a massive sit-in.
1967 - Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the donor organ, which came from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old bank clerk who had died in a traffic accident.
1967 - The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.
1979 - Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by The Who.
1984 - A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.
1989 - East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee, resigned.
1992 - The Grek tanker Aegean Sea spilled more than 21 million gallons of crude oil when it ran aground off the coast of Spain.
1994 - AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, who along with her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion, died in Santa Monica, California at age 47.
1997 - South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.
1999 - Scientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed.
2009 - Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal.
2010 - The Labor Department reported the U.S. unemployment rate had risen in November 2010 to 9.8 percent after three straight months at 9.6 percent.
2014 - A Staten Island, New York, grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a Black man who’d been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. (Pantaleo would be fired from the police force in August 2019.)
2015 - Congress approved a 5-year, $305 billion bill to address the nation’s aging and congested transportation systems (the bill was approved on a 359-65 vote in the House, and an 83-16 vote in the Senate).
2017 - CVS, the nation's second-largest U.S. drugstore chain, announced plans to buy Aetna, the third-largest health insurer, in order to push much deeper into customer care.
2019 - A 300-page report prepared by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee found “serious misconduct” by President Donald Trump in his dealings with Ukraine; the report would serve as a foundation for debate over whether Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
Birthdays
23 - Bridget Satterlee (model)
26 - Jake T. Austin (actor)
33 - Michael Angarano (actor)
35 - Amanda Seyfried (actress)
37 - Andy Grammer (singer)
38 - Dascha Polanco (actress)
39 - Brian Bonsall (actor)
40 - Jenna Dewan (actress)
40 - Anna Chlumsky (actress)
41 - Tiffany Haddish (actress/comedian)
41 - Daniel Bedingfield (singer)
45 - Lauren Roman (actress)
45 - Liza Lapira (actress)
47 - Holly Marie Combs (actress)
47 - Bruno Campos (actor)
51 - Royale Watkins (actor)
52 - Brendan Fraser (actor)
55 - Katarina Witt (figure skater)
60 - Julianne Moore (actress)
60 - Daryl Hannah (actress)
65 - Steven Culp (actor)
72 - Ozzy Osbourne (singer)
79 - Mary Alice (actress)
87 - Nicolas Coster (actor)
89 - Jaye P. Morgan (singer)
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Today in Sports History - December 3
1932 - Nebraska defeats Southern Methodist 21-14 to end the season with a record of 7-1-1; NU also won the Big 6 championship (5-0).
1943 - Notre Dame quarterback Angelo Bertelli won the Heisman Trophy.
1946 - Army running back Glenn Davis won the Heisman Trophy.
1950 - Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers. Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) broke the record with 20 catches for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears on December 17, 2000.
1952 - In his collegiate debut, Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points and grabs 31 rebounds leading Kansas to an 87-69 win over Northwestern.
1957 - Texas A&M running back John David Crow won the Heisman Trophy.
1961 - George Blanda of the Houston Oilers kicked a record 55-yard field goal.
1968 - The rules committee of Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that in 1969 the pitcher's mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches. This was done in order to "get more batting action." The strike zone was also reduced from the knees to the shoulders to the top of the knees to the armpits.
1979 - USC running back Charles White won the Heisman Trophy.
1983 - Nebraska running back Mike Rozier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1988 - Oklahoma State running back Barry Sanders won the Heisman Trophy.
1994 - Greg LeMond, the three-time winner of the Tour de France, announced his retirement from cycling.
1818 - Illinois became the 21st state.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States by the Electoral College.
1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the United States.
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
1919 - French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
1948 - The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
1964 - Police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley who had stormed the administration building the previous day and staged a massive sit-in.
1967 - Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the donor organ, which came from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old bank clerk who had died in a traffic accident.
1967 - The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.
1979 - Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by The Who.
1984 - A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.
1989 - East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee, resigned.
1992 - The Grek tanker Aegean Sea spilled more than 21 million gallons of crude oil when it ran aground off the coast of Spain.
1994 - AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, who along with her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion, died in Santa Monica, California at age 47.
1997 - South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.
1999 - Scientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed.
2009 - Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal.
2010 - The Labor Department reported the U.S. unemployment rate had risen in November 2010 to 9.8 percent after three straight months at 9.6 percent.
2014 - A Staten Island, New York, grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a Black man who’d been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. (Pantaleo would be fired from the police force in August 2019.)
2015 - Congress approved a 5-year, $305 billion bill to address the nation’s aging and congested transportation systems (the bill was approved on a 359-65 vote in the House, and an 83-16 vote in the Senate).
2017 - CVS, the nation's second-largest U.S. drugstore chain, announced plans to buy Aetna, the third-largest health insurer, in order to push much deeper into customer care.
2019 - A 300-page report prepared by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee found “serious misconduct” by President Donald Trump in his dealings with Ukraine; the report would serve as a foundation for debate over whether Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
Birthdays
23 - Bridget Satterlee (model)
26 - Jake T. Austin (actor)
33 - Michael Angarano (actor)
35 - Amanda Seyfried (actress)
37 - Andy Grammer (singer)
38 - Dascha Polanco (actress)
39 - Brian Bonsall (actor)
40 - Jenna Dewan (actress)
40 - Anna Chlumsky (actress)
41 - Tiffany Haddish (actress/comedian)
41 - Daniel Bedingfield (singer)
45 - Lauren Roman (actress)
45 - Liza Lapira (actress)
47 - Holly Marie Combs (actress)
47 - Bruno Campos (actor)
51 - Royale Watkins (actor)
52 - Brendan Fraser (actor)
55 - Katarina Witt (figure skater)
60 - Julianne Moore (actress)
60 - Daryl Hannah (actress)
65 - Steven Culp (actor)
72 - Ozzy Osbourne (singer)
79 - Mary Alice (actress)
87 - Nicolas Coster (actor)
89 - Jaye P. Morgan (singer)
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Today in Sports History - December 3
1932 - Nebraska defeats Southern Methodist 21-14 to end the season with a record of 7-1-1; NU also won the Big 6 championship (5-0).
1943 - Notre Dame quarterback Angelo Bertelli won the Heisman Trophy.
1946 - Army running back Glenn Davis won the Heisman Trophy.
1950 - Tom Fears (Los Angeles Rams) caught an NFL-record 18 passes against the Green Bay Packers. Terrell Owens (San Francisco 49ers) broke the record with 20 catches for 283 yards and a touchdown against the Chicago Bears on December 17, 2000.
1952 - In his collegiate debut, Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points and grabs 31 rebounds leading Kansas to an 87-69 win over Northwestern.
1957 - Texas A&M running back John David Crow won the Heisman Trophy.
1961 - George Blanda of the Houston Oilers kicked a record 55-yard field goal.
1968 - The rules committee of Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that in 1969 the pitcher's mound would be lowered from 15 to 10 inches. This was done in order to "get more batting action." The strike zone was also reduced from the knees to the shoulders to the top of the knees to the armpits.
1979 - USC running back Charles White won the Heisman Trophy.
1983 - Nebraska running back Mike Rozier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1988 - Oklahoma State running back Barry Sanders won the Heisman Trophy.
1994 - Greg LeMond, the three-time winner of the Tour de France, announced his retirement from cycling.
