TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2024

On this day...

1833-Oberlin College in Ohio, first truly coeducational college opens

1939-Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony, premieres

1953-Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party

1959-State of emergency on Cyprus ends

1964-Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley

1967-Ex-President Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia

1971-Miss Teenage America Pageant

1981-U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1984-2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India

1989-George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta

1991-Muslim Shiites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen

1992-U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia