On December 3, 1979, the last Pacer rolled off the assembly
line at the American Motors Corporation (AMC) factory in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.

On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky received
the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in
Cape Town, South Africa.

Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart
disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-
old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. 

The new heart recipient died eighteen days later of pneumonia,
largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed
his immune system.

Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape    
Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical      
operation.

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922 – 2001)

As related in a letter dated the following day, General
George Washington wrote to Congress from his
headquarters in  Trenton, New Jersey, to report that
he had transported much of the Continental Army’s
stores and baggage across the Delaware River to
Pennsylvania on December 2, 1776.      

Most of the troops could not swim, and horses were
also transported. Additionally, eighteen pieces of
artillery had  to cross over the river.       

Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware would come
less than a month later on December 25th.

Cyber Monday is a marketing term for e-commerce transactions
on the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It was
created by retailers to encourage people to shop online.

The term was coined by Ellen Davis of the National Retail
Federation and Scott Silverman, and made its debut on
November 28, 2005, in a Shop.org press release entitled
"Cyber Monday Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest
Online Shopping Days of the Year.
(From Wikipedia)

Ellen Davis