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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 more than 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 - Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa 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 20thCentury 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.
1980 - Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the radical Weather Underground, surrendered to authorities in Chicago after more than a decade as a fugitive.
1984 - A deadly cloud of poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing more than 4,000 people.
1989 - East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee resigned.
1991 - Radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Alann Steen, who had been held captive for nearly five years.
1992 - The first telephone text message was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth, who transmitted the greeting "Merry Christmas" from his work computer in Newbury, Berkshire to Vodafone executive Richard Jarvis' mobile phone.
1997 - South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.
1999 - Tori Murden of the United States became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone as she arrived at the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, 81 days after leaving the Canary Islands near the coast of Africa.
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.
2009 - President Barack Obama hosted a White House-sponsored jobs forum, where he said he’d heard many “exciting ideas” and proposals and expressed hope some could be put into action quickly.
2014 - A Staten Island, New York, grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
2018 - A casket containing the body of former President George H.W. Bush was flown from Texas to Washington to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Birthdays
22 - Bridget Satterlee (model)
25 - Jake T. Austin (actor)
32 - Michael Angarano (actor)
34 - Amanda Seyfried (actress)
36 - Andy Grammer (singer)
37 - Dascha Polanco (actress)
38 - Brian Bonsall (actor)
39 - Jenna Dewan (actress)
39 - Anna Chlumsky (actress)
40 - Tiffany Haddish (actress/comedian)
40 - Daniel Bedingfield (singer)
44 - Lauren Roman (actress)
44 - Liza Lapira (actress)
46 - Holly Marie Combs (actress)
46 - Bruno Campos (actor)
50 - Royale Watkins (actor)
51 - Montell Jordan (singer)
51 - Brendan Fraser (actor)
54 - Katarina Witt (figure skater)
59 - Julianne Moore (actress)
59 - Daryl Hannah (actress)
64 - Steven Culp (actor)
70 - Mickey Thomas (singer)
71 - Ozzy Osbourne (singer)
78 - Mary Alice (actress)
86 - Nicolas Coster (actor)
88 - Jaye P. Morgan (singer)
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Today in Sports History - December 3
1943 - Notre Dame quarterback Angelo Bertelli wins the Heisman Trophy.
1946 - Army running back Glenn Davis wins the Heisman Trophy.
1950 - The Cleveland Browns are the last team to win an NFL game without attempting a pass in a 13-7 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
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.
1956 - Wilt Chamberlain makes his collegiate basketball debut with the Kansas Jayhawks and scores 52 points and records 31 rebounds in an 87-69 win over Northwestern.
1957 - John David Crow of Texas A&M wins the Heisman Trophy.
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 - Running back Charles White of Southern California (USC) wins 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.
1997 - Golden State Warriors terminates guard Latrell Sprewell's four-year, $32 million NBA contract for attacking coach P.J. Carlesimo.
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 more than 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 - Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa 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 20thCentury 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.
1980 - Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the radical Weather Underground, surrendered to authorities in Chicago after more than a decade as a fugitive.
1984 - A deadly cloud of poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing more than 4,000 people.
1989 - East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee resigned.
1991 - Radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Alann Steen, who had been held captive for nearly five years.
1992 - The first telephone text message was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth, who transmitted the greeting "Merry Christmas" from his work computer in Newbury, Berkshire to Vodafone executive Richard Jarvis' mobile phone.
1997 - South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.
1999 - Tori Murden of the United States became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone as she arrived at the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, 81 days after leaving the Canary Islands near the coast of Africa.
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.
2009 - President Barack Obama hosted a White House-sponsored jobs forum, where he said he’d heard many “exciting ideas” and proposals and expressed hope some could be put into action quickly.
2014 - A Staten Island, New York, grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
2018 - A casket containing the body of former President George H.W. Bush was flown from Texas to Washington to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
Birthdays
22 - Bridget Satterlee (model)
25 - Jake T. Austin (actor)
32 - Michael Angarano (actor)
34 - Amanda Seyfried (actress)
36 - Andy Grammer (singer)
37 - Dascha Polanco (actress)
38 - Brian Bonsall (actor)
39 - Jenna Dewan (actress)
39 - Anna Chlumsky (actress)
40 - Tiffany Haddish (actress/comedian)
40 - Daniel Bedingfield (singer)
44 - Lauren Roman (actress)
44 - Liza Lapira (actress)
46 - Holly Marie Combs (actress)
46 - Bruno Campos (actor)
50 - Royale Watkins (actor)
51 - Montell Jordan (singer)
51 - Brendan Fraser (actor)
54 - Katarina Witt (figure skater)
59 - Julianne Moore (actress)
59 - Daryl Hannah (actress)
64 - Steven Culp (actor)
70 - Mickey Thomas (singer)
71 - Ozzy Osbourne (singer)
78 - Mary Alice (actress)
86 - Nicolas Coster (actor)
88 - Jaye P. Morgan (singer)
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Today in Sports History - December 3
1943 - Notre Dame quarterback Angelo Bertelli wins the Heisman Trophy.
1946 - Army running back Glenn Davis wins the Heisman Trophy.
1950 - The Cleveland Browns are the last team to win an NFL game without attempting a pass in a 13-7 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
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.
1956 - Wilt Chamberlain makes his collegiate basketball debut with the Kansas Jayhawks and scores 52 points and records 31 rebounds in an 87-69 win over Northwestern.
1957 - John David Crow of Texas A&M wins the Heisman Trophy.
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 - Running back Charles White of Southern California (USC) wins 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.
1997 - Golden State Warriors terminates guard Latrell Sprewell's four-year, $32 million NBA contract for attacking coach P.J. Carlesimo.