YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2014. There are 28 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1828: Andrew Jackson is elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.

1833: Oberlin College in Ohio — the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the United States — begins holding classes.

1925: George Gershwin’s Concerto in F has its world premiere at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin at the piano.

1947: The Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens on Broadway.

1960: The Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot” opens on Broadway.

1964: Police arrest some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, a day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in.

1967: Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard perform the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who would live 18 days with the new heart.

The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completes its final run from New York to Chicago.

1979: Eleven people are killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.

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.

1991: Radicals in Lebanon release American hostage Alann Steen, who’d been held captive nearly five years.

1994: AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, who along with her two children, is infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion, dies in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 47.

2004: It is announced that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will stay on the job. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigns, warning as he left of a possible terror attack on the nation’s food supply.

2009: President Barack Obama hosts a White House-sponsored jobs forum, where he says he’d heard many “exciting ideas” and proposals and expresses hope some could be put into action quickly.

Pope Benedict XVI and visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agree to upgrade Vatican-Kremlin ties to full diplomatic relations.

2013: Seeking to regroup from his health care law’s disastrous rollout, President Barack Obama insists the sweeping overhaul is working and warns Republican critics that he will fight any efforts to strip away its protections.

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1989: Defending NCAA Division I-AA champions Furman defeats the Youngstown State University Penguins, 42-23, in tournament play in Greenville, S.C.

Lawrence County, Pa., receives 14 applicants for county jail warden, but only two meet the qualifications set by the county prison board.

Kravitz Delicatessen Inc. marks 50 years of operation with the opening of a Niles location and bakes about 400 dozen bagels daily for distribution to local markets.

1974: Ohio Edison Co. is working to restore power to 3,000 homes that have been without electricity since a winter storm hit 48 hours earlier.

Thieves escape with an organ from the Ninth Street Baptist Church in Campbell.

Archie Griffin, Ohio State University’s spectacular fullback, wins the Heisman trophy, only the fifth college junior to win the award.

1964: Youngstown City Council vetoes Mayor A.B. Flask’s recommendation that the zoning for the Commercial Piping Co. not be changed from residential to commercial. Neighbors had protested the change.

Architect Arthur D’Orazio designs a new $11.5 million Youngstown University Union.

1939: The Youngstown Browns Baseball Club, an affiliate of the American League Baseball Club of St. Louis, which had to turn away 35,000 baseball fans from Idora Park during the 1939 season, is urging Youngstown to apply for WPA financing for a baseball stadium.

Lowell Thomas, noted author, lecturer and commentator, is making a visit to Youngstown and Warren for speaking engagements and will appear on WFMJ radio to discuss the European situation.

Lloyd S. Jones, a Vindicator photographer for three years, has two photographs accepted for publication in the 1940 U.S. Camera Annual.