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Today In History - December 3 |
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December 3, 1621 Galileo invents the telescope |
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On This Date in History |
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741 St. Zachary begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 1347 Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics 1557 The first Covenant of Scottish Protestants form 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England 1621 Galileo invents the telescope 1639 The first annulment by court decree passes 1676 The Battle at Lund 1678 Edmund Halley receives his MA from Queen's College, Oxford 1685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm, Sweden 1694 English parliamentary election is set for every 3 years 1775 The first official U.S. flag raising: aboard the naval vessel Alfred 1818 Illinois becomes 21st state in the USA 1828 Andrew Jackson is elected 7th president of US 1834 The first U.S. dental society is organized 1835 The first U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues first policy 1847 Frederick Douglass publishes the first issue of his newspaper "North Star" 1863 Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN 1864 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia 1866 Paid fire departments replace volunteer companies 1868 The trial of Jefferson Davis starts: the first blacks on a U.S. trial jury 1878 Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel 1881 Henry M. Stanley finds Leopoldville 1883 The 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes 1912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign a weapons pact 1920 Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty 1922 The first successful Technicolor movie: Tall of the Sea, is shown in New York City 1923 The first Congressional open session is broadcast via radio from Washington, D.C. 1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 people in Meuse Valley, Belgium 1930 Otto Ender forms the Austrian government 1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale 1932 General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany 1934 Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica are annexed to Libya 1941 Hitler views Poltava, Ukraine 1943 The Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins 1944 The Hungarian death march of Jews ends 1944 US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg, Hurtgenwald 1946 The U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain 1947 Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in New York City 1948 The "Pumpkin Papers" come to light: claimed to be from Alger Hiss 1948 The Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 1948 The first U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps is sworn-in 1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast 1952 The first TV broadcast in Hawaii 1952 Marcos Perez Jimenez is elected President of Venezuela 1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican party 1956 England and France pull their troops out of Egypt 1961 Anton Geesink becomes the first not-Japanese judo world champion 1961 Beatles meet their future manager, Brian Epstein 1961 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson is sworn-in as the first U.S. black female judge 1964 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" first airs on TV 1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley 1966 The US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss 1967 The first human heart transplant is performed by Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa 1968 Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and the strike zone is reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters 1969 John Lennon is offered the role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar 1970 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 Miss Teenage America Pageant 1971 President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term 1972 A Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island and 155 people die 1976 Dr. Patrick J. Hillery is elected the president of Iraq 1978 Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins the LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400 1979 Iran accepts a constitution 1980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty 1981 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1983 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1984 Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin 1988 New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winners 1991 Hulk Hogan defeats the Undertaker to become WWF champion 1991 Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen 1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns 1992 The U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1368 Charles VI, King of France 1483 Nicolaus von Amsdorf 1576 Marsilio Casentini 1668 Casimir Schweizelsperg 1684 Ludvig Baron Holberg 1750 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel 1752 Georg-Friederich Fuchs 1753 Samuel Crompton 1755 Gilbert Stuart 1758 Josef Gelinek 1795 Rowland Hill 1797 Francis P. Kenrick 1800 France Preseren 1806 Henry Alexander Wise 1807 Gamaliel Bailey 1809 Thomas Alfred Davies 1822 Charles Adam Heckman 1826 Edmond van der Straeten 1826 George Brinton McClellan 1829 Green Berry Raum 1838 Cleveland Abbe 1838 Octavia Hill 1842 Ellen Henrietta Richards 1857 Joseph Conrad 1862 Jules Renkin 1886 Karl M.G. Siegbahn 1888 Ion Nonna Otescu 1895 Anna Freud 1896 Boleslaw Szabelski 1896 John Urzidil 1897 Kate O'Brien 1898 Lev Konstantinovich Knipper 1900 Lester Matthews 1900 Richard Kuhn 1907 Connee Boswell 1908 Halsey Stevens 1908 Nigel M. Balchin 1910 Robert Arthur Hughes 1911 Dana Suesse 1911 Nino Rota 1913 Omer Vanaudenhoven 1914 Irving Fine 1919 Charles Craig 1921 Hans G. Kresse 1923 Maria Callas 1923 Tom Fears 1923 Trevor Bailey 1924 John Backus 1925 Ken Funston 1927 Ferlin Husky 1927 Isabelle Harriet Lucas 1929 Clarence Ford 1929 Paul Harris Turok 1929 Werner Rackwitz 1930 Andy Williams 1930 Jean-Luc Godard 1930 Phyllis Curtin 1931 Ellen Blazer 1931 Jaye P. Morgan 1932 Corry Brokken 1934 Nicolas Coster 1934 Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko 1937 Bobby Allison 1943 Valerie Perrine 1945 Laura Dean 1948 Diane Kurys 1948 Ozzy Osbourne 1949 Christopher John Seward 1949 Heather Menzies 1949 Mickey Thomas 1951 Rick Mears 1951 Riki Chosyu 1952 Don Barnes 1952 Duane Roland 1952 Mel Smith 1953 Franz Klammer 1954 Paul Gregg 1955 Melody Anderson 1956 Hart Bochner 1959 Kathy Jordan 1960 Daryl Hannah 1960 Mike Ramsey 1961 Julianne Moore 1962 Tammy Jackson 1963 Ashley De Silva 1963 Steve Hegg 1969 Kwamie Lassiter 1970 Charles Hope 1970 Jennifer Rothschild 1970 Laura Schuler 1970 Lindsey Hunter 1970 Paul Byrd 1972 Eva Nemcova 1972 Peter Wright 1973 Andrew McNally 1973 Brian Loyd 1973 Holly Marie Combs 1974 Ralph Staten 1975 Lauren E. Roman 1975 Nadine Neumann 1977 David Sales 1980 Anna Chlumsky 1981 Brian Bonsall |
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