Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2025. There are 28 days left in the year.

On Dec. 3, 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the armed services to open all military jobs to women, removing the final barriers that had kept women from serving in combat.

In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.

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In 1979, 11 people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.

In 1984, a cloud of methyl isocyana

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