On This Day:
Wednesday December 3, 2014 This is the 337th day of the year, with 28 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: mice Mice have sleek, small bodies with light, flexible bones and stretchy ligaments. They can squeeze through holes smaller than a quarter.
Holidays Feast day of Saints Claudius, Hilaria and their Companions, St. Birinus, St. Lucius of Britain, St. Cassian of Tangier, and St. Francis Xavier.
Central African Republic: National Day.
Events 1762 - France ceded to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi -- the territory known as Upper Louisiana.
1775 - John Paul Jones hoisted the first seagoing American flag.
1818 - Illinois entered the United States as the 21st state.
1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States of America.
1833 - Oberlin Collegiate Institute became the first coeducational college in the United States with an enrollment of 29 men and 15 women.
1912 - Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro signed an armistice with Turkey, ending the first Balkan War.
1917 - The Quebec Bridge, the world's longest cantilever, was opened over the St. Lawrence River.
1948 - The first female U.S. Army officer not in the medical corps was sworn in.
1960 - "Camelot" opened on Broadway in New York City.
1961 - At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Henri Matisse's painting "Le Bateau," which had been hung upside-down for 46 days, was righted.
1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant, on Louis Washkanski. Washkanski lived 18 days with the new heart.
1979 - Eleven people were killed and others injured in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.
1984 - One of the worst industrial disasters occurred as a pesticide plant located in the densely populated region of Bhopal in central India leaked a highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate into the air.
1989 - United States President George Bush and Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev announced the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta.
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.
Births 1826 - George McClellan, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president.
1842 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American flour miller and food products manufacturer.
1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born novelist.
1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born psychologist who pioneered child psychoanalysis.
1903 - Carlos Montoya, Spanish-born guitarist and composer.
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director.
Deaths 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish poet and novelist.
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, American founder of Christian Science religious faith.
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