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Today is Saturday, Dec. 3, the 338th day of 2016. There are 28 days left in the year.

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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.

1926: A real-life mystery begins as English novelist Agatha Christie, 36, drives away from her home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, and disappears. (Christie turned up 11 days later at a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, under an assumed name, for reasons never quite explained.)

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

1953: The musical “Kismet,” featuring the song “Stranger in Paradise,” opens on Broadway.

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

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

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 escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.

2011: In Atlanta, a defiant Herman Cain suspends his faltering bid for the Republican presidential nomination amid a drumbeat of sexual misconduct allegations that he condemns as “false and unproven.”

2015: Congress approves a 5-year, $305 billion bill to address the nation’s aging and congested transportation systems.

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1991: Heavy rain resulted in fewer Ohio hunters out on the opening day of deer season. There were no reports of accidents on the first day of gun season.

Mark Lyden says the second meeting of Youngstown State University’s presidential search committee will be open to the public.

With just weeks remaining in his term, Niles Mayor Joseph Parise is contemplating hiring more than a dozen city workers, a move that has drawn the ire of Mayor-elect Ralph A. Infante.

1976: Joseph V. Bartlomain of Girard is sworn in as Salem’s new postmaster, succeeding Anthony J. Schiavone, who was promoted to Youngstown postmaster and administered the oath of office.

Ten-year records fall in the Youngstown area as temperatures fall as low as 6 below zero.

U.S. Steel Corp. will shut down its Ohio Works iron and steel making operations for two weeks over the Christmas holiday in an effort to reduce inventory.

1966: Daniel Forshee of Canfield, Chevrolet plant manager at Lordstown, is assigned to Detroit. William Harden Jr., assembly plant manager at Willow Run, Mich, is the new Lordstown manager.

Robert E. Williams, CEO of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., predicts 1966 will set steel-output records and says the company is not forgetting Youngstown in planning for capital improvements.

A 23-year-old Warren man is sentenced to three consecutive terms of five years in federal prison after the was found guilty of white slavery in U.S. District Court.

1941: Plans to build a $500,000 addition to United Engineering & Foundry’s new steel and glass building are announced.

Repaving four main streets, opening Gibson Street, construction of a new South Avenue fire station, and the West End swimming pool are included in a WPA program of $847,000 just approved by President Roosevelt.