December 3, 1972 (Sunday)
- A Spantax Airlines jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Tenerife, killing all 155 persons on board. Of the 148 passengers, 143 were West German travelers returning to Munich following the end of a South Atlantic ocean liner cruise.
- Died: Bill Johnson, 100, American jazz musician
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Famous quotes containing the word december:
“For I have lost the race I never ran,
A rathe December blights my lagging May;”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)