On This Day — December 3

Sev­eral inter­est­ing things hap­pened on Decem­ber 3 in his­tory.  Here are just a few:

1818 — Illi­nois was admit­ted to the union as the 21^st state.

1828 - Andrew Jack­son was elected the sev­enth pres­i­dent of the United States.

1857 -Nov­el­ist Joseph Con­rad was born in Berdy­chiv, Poland.

1947 - “A Street­car Named Desire” by Ten­nessee Williams opened on Broadway.

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, one day after the stu­dents stormed the admin­is­tra­tion build­ing and staged a mas­sive sit-in.

1965 — The album “Rub­ber Soul” by the Bea­t­les was released.

1967 — Sur­geons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Chris­ti­aan Barnard, per­formed the first human heart trans­plant. Louis Washkan­sky lived 18 days with the new heart.

1967 — The 20^th 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.

1989 — East Ger­man Com­mu­nist leader Egon Krenz, the rul­ing Polit­buro and the party’s Cen­tral Com­mit­tee resigned.

1994 — Eliz­a­beth Glaser, who became an AIDS activist after she and her two chil­dren were infected with HIV via a blood trans­fu­sion, died 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.

2006 Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Hugo Chavez won re-election.

Source:  New York Times

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