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Today is Sunday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2006. 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 by the Electoral College. 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 1979, 11 people are killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who were performing. In 1984, thousands of people die after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escapes from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.
December 3, 1981: Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas asks county commissioners to double his 1981 appropriation of 1.3 million to 2.6 million in 1982 so that he can increase his staff from 80 to 117, which would include 73 sworn deputies.
Police foot patrols are being increased in downtown Youngstown after burglars hit the second jewelry store in less than a week. Burglars hit King's Jewelry; previously they hit Brenner's Jewelers, which is next door on W. Federal.
December 3, 1966: Northeastern Ohio is digging out from a blinding snowstorm, with parts of Ashtabula under 30 inches of snow.
The Youngstown Education Association files suit seeking to force the Board of Education to pay 900 teachers who reported to their schools during a three-day strike by the Youngstown Federation of Teachers. There were no children to be taught because the superintendent had advised students to stay home rather than have them cross YFT picket lines.
December 3, 1956: James J. Kernan, a Youngstown native, graduate of East High and a brilliant linebacker throughout the 1956 season at West Point, is elected captain of the 1957 Army football team.
G. Stanley Kreiler, the Republican candidate for Mahoning County Sheriff, who was leading by 23 votes in the official count election night, asks Secretary of State Ted Brown to conduct an investigation into the recount that shows the incumbent Democrat Paul J. Langley winning by 211 votes.
December 3, 1931: Fourteen witness are called on the first day of Mahoning County Prosecutor Ray Thomas's grand jury investigation into land deals conducted by Youngstown in the last six years.
Judge Clifford M. Woodside asks Mahoning County commissioners to provide 30,000 in the 1932 budget for the operation of a psychopathic ward in one of the local hospitals. Woodside's probate court handles cases involving lunacy, insanity and the feeble-minded.
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