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Today in History ~ December 3
Events0741 - St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
1621 - Galileo perfects telescope
1678 - Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
1685 - Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
1775 - 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
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)
1835 - 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1863 - Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1866 - Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
1868 - Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
1881 - Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
1883 - 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
1903 - Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Col˜n at Atjeh
1912 - Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1920 - Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
1926 - Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
1929 - The Ford Motor Co. raised the pay of its employees from $5 to $7 a day despite the collapse of the American stock market.
1930 - Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
1931 - L Boyer discovers asteroid #1212 Francette
1932 - Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1933 - Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
1934 - Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1938 - AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1942 - E Delporte discovers asteroid #1560 Strattonia
1943 - Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1944 - British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
1946 - US govt askes UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1947 - Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire," opens
1948 - "Pumpkin Papers" of the Whittaker Chambers spy case disclosed that microfilm of secret American documents was found in a pumpkin on the former magazine editor's Maryland farm, allegedly for delivery to a communist power.(claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
1948 - 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1948 - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
1950 - Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
1950 - Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1952 - 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1953 - Eisenhower criticize McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
1956 - England & France pull troops out of Egypt
1956 - Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
1959 - Emergency crisis in Cyprus ends
1960 - "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
1961 - Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
1961 - George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
1962 - Pravda criticizes western art
1964 - Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley
1965 - USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1967 - 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, S Africa) [H]
1967 - Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1969 - John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
1972 - Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
1973 - Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
1975 - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1976 - Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
1979 - 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?]
1980 - NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
1981 - Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #3089 & #3463
1982 - 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
1984 - 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1984 - Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc
1985 - 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
1988 - Barry Sanders wins Heisman Trophy
1990 - Soldiers seized Argentina's army headquarters two days before President Bush was due to visit. The rebellion was quickly put down.
1991 - Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
1991 - Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
1991 - White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
1992 - UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
1992 - Roman Catholic officials in Boston agreed to pay compensation to 68 people who claimed they were sexually abused 25 years ago by then-priest James Porter.
1995 - South Korean police arrested former president Chun Doo Hwan on charges of orchestrating the December 1979 military coup that brought him to power.
1997 - Delegates from 131 countries met in Ottawa, Canada, to sign the Convention on the Prohibition, Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines. 123 nations signed, but not the United States, Russia or China.
2001 - Responding to a new wave of Palestinian suicide bombings, Israel struck the West Bank with planes, helicopter gunships, tanks and bulldozers, firing missiles into Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
2002 - Senior U.S. officials sought Turkey's full support for a possible attack on Iraq with promises of economic, military and diplomatic rewards.
Birthdays Today
1368 - Charles VI [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422)
1483 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf German reformation theologist
1684 - Ludvig Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature
1729 - Padre Antonio Soler Olot Spain, composer (Fandango)
1755 - Gilbert Stuart US, portrait painter (painted Washington)
1795 - Rowland Hill introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
1797 - Francis P Kenrick Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
1806 - Henry Alexander Wise Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1809 - Thomas Alfred Davies Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1822 - Charles Adam Heckman Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1826 - George Brinton McClellan Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
1829 - Green Berry Raum Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio opened with an enrollment of 29 men and 15 women, the nation's first truly co-educational college.
1838 - Cleveland Abbe US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
1838 - Octavia Hill British reformer, leader of open-space movement
1842 - Ellen Henrietta Richards US, chemist (Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres)
1857 - Joseph Conrad Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
1862 - Jules Renkin Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32)
1864 - Herman He˜ermans Jr writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City)
1875 - Bernhard Lichtenberg German clergyman/antifascist
1883 - Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
1886 - Karl MG Siegbahn Swedish physicist (r”ntgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924)
1895 - Anna Freud Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F
1897 - Kate O'Brien Irish writer (Without My Cloak)
1900 - Lester Matthews Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
1900 - Richard Kuhn Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938)
1904 - Juan E Yrausquin founder (Party of Patriot Arubans)/minister
1907 - Connee Boswell New Orleans La, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
1908 - Halsey Stevens Scott NY, composer (Triskelion)
1911 - Dana Suesse songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
1914 - Irving Fine Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)
1921 - Hans G Kresse artist (Eric the Viking)
1923 - Tom Fears NFL end (LA Rams)
1924 - John Backus inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
1926 - Hans Otte German composer/pianist
1927 - Ferlin Husky country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
1930 - Andy Williams Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
1931 - Ellen Blazer Dutch TV director (Sonja)
1931 - Jaye P Morgan Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
1934 - Nicolas Coster London, (Lionel-Santa Barbara, Electric Horseman)
1934 - Viktor V Gorbatko cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
1938 - Jos‚ Serebrier Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon)
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal musician; ate a bat (Suicide)
1949 - Heather Menzies Toronto Canada, actress (Jessica-Logan's Run)
1950 - John Akii-bua Uganda, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 - Danger Alberto Juantorena Cuba, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 - James Turner Brewer Maywood Ill, basketball player (Oly-silver-1972)
1951 - Mike Stock rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1951 - Rick Mears Indy-car racer (over 25 wins)
1952 - Mel Smith author (Morons From Outer Space)
1953 - Franz Klammer Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Melody Anderson Edmonton Alb, actress (Flash Gordon, Brooke-Manimal)
1959 - Kathy Jordan Penn, tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981)
1960 - Mike Ramsey US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1965 - Katarina Witt Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
1968 - Kevin Telles actor
1980 - Anna Chlumsky Chicago Ill, actress (My Girl)
1981 - Brian Bonsall actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation)
Famous deaths
0450 - Petrus Chrysologus 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies
1137 - Lotharius III of Supplinburg, Roman-German emperor (1133-37), dies
1154 - Anastasius IV Pope (1153-54), dies
1463 - Louis Chalon prince of Orange, dies
1491 - Thomas Basin French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
1789 - Claude-Joseph Vernet French seascape painter, dies
1807 - Clara Reeve English author (old English baron), dies
1839 - Frederik VI king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies
1857 - Christian D Rauch German sculptor, dies at 80
1892 - William Bonaparte grandson of Lucien
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies
1919 - Pierre A Renoir French painter/sculptor, dies
1937 - Prosper Poullet Belgian mayor, dies
1957 - Frank E Gannett newspaper publisher dies at 81
1967 - Fred Engelen Flemish actor/director, dies
1973 - Michael O'Shea actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
1985 - Sam Gillman actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
1991 - Alex Graham British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
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