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What happened in history on this day: December 3?
On December 3 in ...
- 1775 - First official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred).
- 1818 - Illinois admitted as 21st US state.
- 1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected 7th President of US, with John C Calhoun as Vice-President.
- 1833 - Oberlin College opens in Ohio, first truly coeducational college.
- 1834 - First US dental society is organized (New York).
- 1835 - First US mutual fire insurance company issues first policy (Rhode Island).
- 1863 - Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, Tennessee.
- 1864 - Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia.
- 1883 - 48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes.
- 1922 - First successful Technicolor movie (Tale of the Sea), shown in New York City, New York.
- 1923 - First Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington DC).
- 1944 - US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hürtgenwald.
- 1946 - US government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain.
- 1947 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway, New York, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
- 1948 - "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss).
- 1952 - First TV broadcast in Hawaii.
- 1960 - Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's Camelot premieres at Majestic Theater in New York City for 873 performances.
- 1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1964 - Police arrest 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley.
- 1967 - Final run of "20th Century Limited", famed New York-Chicago luxury train.
- 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1971 - US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term.
- 1979 - Eleven fans are killed during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
- 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1982 - A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri. It is found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
- 1982 - 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record).
- 1984 - A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries).
- 1984 - Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin, USA.
- 1988 - New York Lotto pays US$45 million to twelve winners (numbers are 1-8-13-18-28-48).
- 1989 - In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
- 1990 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.
- 1991 - Muslim Shiites release US hostage Alan Steen.
- 1991 - White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns.
- 1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty.
- 2001 - Officials announce that one of the Taliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising at Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan is John Walker Lindh, an American citizen.
Births on December 3
- 1907 - Birth of Connee Boswell in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; singer (Boswell Sisters), actress (Pete Kelly's Blues TV show).
- 1908 - Birth of Halsey Stevens Scott in New York, USA; composer (Triskelion).
- 1914 - Birth of Irving Fine in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; composer (Toccata).
- 1930 - Birth of Andy Williams in Wall Lake, Iowa, USA; singer ("Moon River", Andy Williams Show).
- 1930 - Birth of Phyllis Curtin in Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA; soprano (New York City Opera).
- 1931 - Birth of Jaye P Morgan in Mancos, Colorado, USA; singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol, Fay).
- 1943 - Birth of Valerie Perrine in Galveston, Texas, USA; actress (Slaughterhouse 5).
- 1945 - Birth of Laura Dean in Staten Island, New York, USA; composer/choreographer (Drumming).
- 1949 - Birth of Mickey Thomas in Cairo, Georgia, USA; rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship).
- 1951 - Birth of James Turner Brewer in Maywood, Illinois, USA; basketball player (Olympics-silver-1972).
- 1956 - Birth of Hart Bochner in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor/director (Rich and Famous).
- 1959 - Birth of Kathy Jordan in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA; tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981).
- 1960 - Birth of Daryl Hannah in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Splash, Blade Runner, Final Days of Planet Earth, The Last Don).
- 1963 - Birth of Steve Hegg in Dana Point, California, USA; road cyclist (Olympics-16th-1984, 1996).
- 1964 - Birth of Darryl Hamilton in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; outfielder (Texas Rangers).
- 1965 - Birth of Tammy Jacques in Auburn, Maine, USA; cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1967 - Birth of Katie Henderson in Santa Monica, California, USA; WPVA volleyball (US Open-25th-1993).
- 1968 - Birth of Brendan Fraser in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks, Scrubs, King of the Hill, The Simpsons).
- 1970 - Birth of Paul Byrd in Louisville, Kentucky, USA; pitcher (New York Mets).
- 1973 - Birth of Brian Loyd in Lynwood, California, USA; baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 1975 - Birth of Lauren E Roman in Wilmington, North Carolina; actress (Laura Kirk - All My Children, The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1980 - Birth of Anna Chlumsky in Chicago, Illinois; actress (My Girl, Miracle in the Woods).
- 1981 - Birth of Brian Bonsall, American actor (Family Ties, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
Deaths on December 3
- 1928 - Death of Ezra Meeker; American sculptor, co-founder of Puyallup Washington, grower of hops, promoter of the Oregon Trail.
- 1981 - Death of Walter Knott, American farmer and theme park creator (Knott's Berry Farm) (born 1889).
- 1993 - Lewis Thomas, American biologist, dies of cancer at age 80 (born 1913).
- 1993 - Death of Joe Fowler at age 99 in Florida, USA; graduated US Naval Academy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, designed World War II aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, retired 1948 as rear admiral, joined Disney team April 1954, oversaw construction of Disneyland, supervised operations, in charge of construction of Walt Disney World, retired 1978, named a Disney Legend 1990.
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