Daily Calendar for December 3rd, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• International Day of Persons with Disabilities

1750s

• Born 1755: Gilbert Stuart (portrait painter)

1810s

• 1818: Illinois was admitted to the Union as the 21st state

1820s

• 1828: Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States

1830s

• 1833: Oberlin College, the first college to admit women (first coeducational college), founded in Oberlin, Ohio. First named Oberlin Collegiate Institute

• Born 1838: Cleveland Abbe (meteorologist, known as "Old Probabilities")

1840s

• 1849: Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann are the first Europeans to see Mt. Kenya

1910s

• 1917: Quebec Bridge opened to rail traffic, Quebec City

1920s

• 1925: George Gershwin, the young American composer, appeared as a soloist at a concert in Carnegie Hall, N.Y.C., playing his "Concerto in F," the first jazz concerto for the piano in musical history

1930s

• 1935: Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, and Governor Lehman dedicate the New Deal's first low cost housing project in NYC

• Born 1937: Bobby Allison (race car driver)

1940s

• Born 1948: Ozzy Osbourne (singer)

• 1948: Discovery of the "Pumpkin Papers" secret documents was announced

1960s

• 1960: Annette Toft was two millionth immigrant to Canada since WWII ended

• Born 1960: Daryl Hannah (actress)

• 1963: Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) opened

• 1967: Final run of luxury train 20th Century Limited finished

• Born 1968: Brendan Fraser (actor)

1970s

• 1973: Pioneer 10, U.S. unmanned spacecraft, reached its closest approach to Jupiter, 21 months after its launch

• 1974: Jupiter flyby of Pioneer 11 spacecraft

1990s

• Died 1999: Madeline Kahn (actress)

2000s

• Died 2002: Henry Chauncey (founded the Educational Testing Service, whose SAT is used by thousands of colleges and universities)

• Died 2003: David Hemmings (actor)

• Born 2009: Polar bear cub born, Toledo Zoo, Ohio