Daily Calendar for Thursday, December 3, 2026
Daily Calendar
View daily calendar information including holidays, advice, and daily features.
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Born
- Gilbert Stuart (portrait painter) –
- Cleveland Abbe (meteorologist, known as Old Probabilities) –
- Bobby Allison (race car driver) –
- Ozzy Osbourne (singer) –
- Daryl Hannah (actress) –
- Brendan Fraser (actor) –
Died
- Madeline Kahn (actress) –
- Henry Chauncey (founded the Educational Testing Service, whose SAT is used by thousands of colleges and universities) –
- David Hemmings (actor) –
Events
- Illinois was admitted to the Union as the 21st state –
- Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States –
- Oberlin College, the first college to admit women (first coeducational college), founded in Oberlin, Ohio. First named Oberlin Collegiate Institute –
- Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann are the first Europeans to see Mt. Kenya –
- Quebec Bridge opened to rail traffic, Quebec City –
- 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 –
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia, and Governor Lehman dedicate the New Deal’s first low cost housing project in NYC –
- Discovery of the “Pumpkin Papers” secret documents was announced –
- Annette Toft was the two millionth immigrant to Canada since WWII ended –
- Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) opened –
- Final run of luxury train 20th Century Limited finished –
- Pioneer 10, U.S. unmanned spacecraft, reached its closest approach to Jupiter, 21 months after its launch –
- Jupiter flyby of Pioneer 11 spacecraft –
- Polar bear cub born, Toledo Zoo, Ohio –
- Madhvi Chittoor and Jeffco Public Schools (Colorado) collected more than 22,000 markers (weighing 441-lbs. 3-oz.) for recycling in just one hour. –
Weather
- A storm raged in Denver, Colorado, and eventually left 45.7 inches of snow, smashing a previous record –
- Boston, Massachusetts, had a temperature of 69 degrees F, breaking the old record of 65 degrees F for this date –
- In Portland, Maine, the temperature reached 68 degrees F, beating the old record high of 55 for this date –
- Providence, Rhode Island, had a record high of 66 degrees F –
- Concord, New Hampshire, set a record at 65 degrees F –