Today in History
3 December
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| 1347 Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics | ||
| 1368 Charles VI, [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422) was born | ||
| 1483 Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist was born | ||
| 1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form | ||
| 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia | ||
| 1621 Galileo invents telescope | ||
| 1639 1st annulment by court decree passes | ||
| 1676 Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen | ||
| 1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford | ||
| 1685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden | ||
| 1694 English parliamentary election set for every 3 years | ||
| 1750 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer was born | ||
| 1795 Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840) was born | ||
| 1800 In the War of the Second Coalition, the French defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Hohenlinden in upper Bavaria. | ||
| 1810 Britain seized the islands of Reunion and Mauritius from French control | ||
| 1818 Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day) | ||
| 1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US | ||
| 1833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens | ||
| 1834 1st US dental society organized (NY) | ||
| 1857 Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born British novelist, was born. | ||
| 1868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury | ||
| 1883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes | ||
| 1893 Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia | ||
| 1903 Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh | ||
| 1910 The neon lamp, developed by French physicist Georges Claude, was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. | ||
| 1912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact | ||
| 1914 Neth army shoots up ge‹nterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed | ||
| 1919 French impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir died. | ||
| 1920 Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty | ||
| 1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium) | ||
| 1930 Otto Ender forms Austrian govt | ||
| 1931 The Statute of Westminster was passed, under which British dominions gained complete legislative independence | ||
| 1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale | ||
| 1932 Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany | ||
| 1934 Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya | ||
| 1941 Hitler views Poltava Ukraine | ||
| 1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins | ||
| 1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece | ||
| 1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends | ||
| 1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe | ||
| 1946 US govt asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain | ||
| 1948 Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial | ||
| 1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 | ||
| 1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast | ||
| 1952 Marcos Perez Jim‚nez elected president of Venezuela | ||
| 1956 England & France pull troops out of Egypt | ||
| 1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses | ||
| 1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends | ||
| 1961 Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein | ||
| 1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley | ||
| 1965 Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow | ||
| 1965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon | ||
| 1967 Dr. Christian Barnard carried out the world's first heart transplant operation in Cape Town, South Africa, on Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days. | ||
| 1967 Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia | ||
| 1971 Pres Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term | ||
| 1971 The Pakistani air force attacked Indian airfields and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency. | ||
| 1972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die | ||
| 1975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed | ||
| 1976 Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq | ||
| 1979 Iran accepts constitution | ||
| 1984 A gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed nearly 4,500 people. | ||
| 1989 The leader of East Germany's orthodox Communist Party, Egon Krenz, and the entire party hierarchy voted themselves out of office. | ||
| 1992 UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia | ||
| 1993 Angola's government and its rebel foes agreed to a cease-fire in their 18-year war. | ||