Today is Thursday, Dec. 3, the 338th day of 2020.
On Dec. 3, 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.
In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in.
In 1833, Oberlin College in Ohio — the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the United States — began holding classes.
Herman Badillo, a Bronx politician who was the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman, died at age 85.