Today is Saturday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2005. There are 28 days left in the year. On this date in 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human

Today is Saturday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2005. There are 28 days left in the year. On this date in 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lives 18 days with the new heart.
In 1828, Andrew Jackson is elected president of the United States. In 1925, "Concerto in F," by George Gershwin, has its world premiere at New York's Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin himself at the piano. In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway. In 1953, the musical "Kismet" opens on Broadway. In 1960, the musical "Camelot" opens on Broadway. In 1964, police arrest some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students storm the administration building and stage a massive sit-in. In 1979, 11 people are killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.
December 3, 1980: Trumbull County's new 2.5 percent motel tax has already reaped more than $14,000 in revenues for the county's proposed Visitor's and Convention bureau.
The newly formed K-C consolidated Coal Co. announces that it is considering the CASTLO Industrial Park as the site of a $10 million coke briquette plant.
President Carter signs into law a bill protecting more than 100 million acres of pristine Alaskan wilderness, calling the measure "one of the most important pieces of conservation legislation in the history of our country."
December 3, 1965: Four men face a hearing in Pittsburgh federal court on charges that they passed $100,000 in bad check is Western Pennsylvania, including thousands of dollars in stores in Sharon and New Castle.
McGuffey Terrace, a 154-unit apartment complex built in 1958, will be put on the market by the Federal Housing Administration.
Boardman Township trustees approve a 7 percent across-the-board pay increase for the township's 53 employees.
Amelia Picciochi, a woman who has devoted a lifetime of humanitarian service to the aged ill, taking in those with no money and no place to go, is arrested on charges of operating an unlicensed nursing home at 97 Wick Oval.
December 3, 1955: Hundreds of Georgia Tech students protest a proposal by Gov. Marvin Griffin to bar Georgia Tech from playing the University of Pittsburgh in the Sugar Bowl because the Pitt football team has a Negro halfback.
Santa Claus will arrive at the Hubbard Memorial Stadium by helicopter. He will be greeted by the Hubbard High and Junior High bands, Susie Sidesaddle of WFMJ-TV and Grizzly Pete of WKBN-TV.
Sharon Steel Corp. lights its Mary blast furnace at Lowellville, an indication of rising scrap prices and an increased demand for steel.
December 3, 1930: Youngstown's new vice squad seizes hundreds of gallons of liquor, four stills and arrests 24 persons as a crackdown on bootlegging continues.
President Hoover opposes continuation of reduced income taxes, telling Congress that a projected deficit of $150 million must mean an end to the cut of 1 percent that was enacted in 1929.
S.R. Creps, director of Youngstown schools, reports that during the five-year period of 1923 to 1927 when the school board received a special 2.2-mill levy, eight new schools were erected at a cost of $2.9 million. The report was requested by board member William Rowney to demonstrate to the public that the board had "kept faith with the public in its expenditures."