December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year.
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.
Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.
In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.
Brent Emery was a cyclist for the United States at the Olympic at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He would win a silver medal in men's team pursuit (4,000 m).
Emery was born Brent Robert Emery on September 15, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has raced bicycles since 1973, racing in 18 countries. He has won 3 elite USA Cycling National Championships: 2 in the 1 km event (1980 & 1981) and the Points Race 1983. He has also won 4 ABR (American Bicycle Racing) National Championships in the Masters Division. In 1981, he set a world mark for the fastest average speed in races over 100 miles by winning the 10th stage of the Tour of Chile in 3h 33min 25 sec for the 174 km (108 miles), a 30.2 mph average speed. This mark was the fastest the world had seen to that point for amateurs as well as professional cyclists. This mark stood for approx 15 years.
At 18 yrs old, he was a regional qualifier for the 1976 Olympic Trials in the Sprint event,though he did not participate in the final trials. He won the 1980 Olympic Trials in the 1 km event, beating out Eric Heiden, who had just come off his record setting 7 gold medals in speed skating at the Winter Olympics. Because of the boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games by the US Team, no US athletes went to Moscow. In 1984, he again made the US Olympic Team, this time winning a silver medal in Los Angeles Olympics in the Team Pursuit event. The US team in that event was plagued by crashes, mishaps. In a tribute their sportsmanship and overcoming adversity, Sports Illustrated captioned their cycling coverage with "America shows its best in a loss". The 1984 Cycling Team was not without controversy. While discouraged, blood boosting was not illegal at the time (it is banned today). An article in Sports Illustrated reported on the expose.
Charles & Eddie
December 2
I wake up thinking that my brother's here
Can'ta ccept he's gone away to the other side
I feel him watching over me sometimes
It's the only time I ever get to feel like smiling
Heaven
Please don't let me down
I only want to say hello to him
Just make me want to live myself
'Cause right now I don't feel much like it
I've tried so hard to understand this loss
We believed in Jesus but did he believe in us
My brother only lived to 31