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Events from History on December 03

1347 : Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics
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
1699 : Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague
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)
1844 : RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
1847 : Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1863 : Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1864 : Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
1866 : Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
1868 : Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
1878 : Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel
1881 : Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
1883 : 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
1893 : Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia
1901 : Milwaukee is dropped from the AL & replaced by St Louis Browns
1903 : Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh
1907 : George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town," premieres in NYC
1908 : Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres
1910 : Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)
1912 : Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
1912 : Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1914 : Neth army shoots up ge‹nterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
1920 : Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
1922 : 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
1923 : 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Wash DC)
1926 : Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
1930 : Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
1930 : Otto Ender forms Austrian govt
1930 : Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London
1931 : Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1932 : Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1933 : Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
1934 : Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1934 : KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn
1938 : AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1939 : Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres
1941 : Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
1943 : 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
1943 : Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1943 : Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres
1943 : Strike 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
1944 : US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hrtgenwald
1946 : 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
1946 : US govt asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1947 : Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC
1948 : "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
1948 : 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1948 : Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
1948 : Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
1949 : KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
1950 : Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts
1950 : Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1952 : 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1952 : Marcos Perez Jim‚nez elected president of Venezuela
1953 : "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
1953 : Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
1953 : Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet
1954 : Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," premieres
1954 : William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida," premieres in London
1955 : KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 : England & France pull troops out of Egypt
1956 : KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
1957 : 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
1958 : Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1959 : State of emergency on Cyprus ends
1960 : "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
1960 : Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot," premieres in NYC
1961 : Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
1961 : Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
1961 : George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
1961 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 : Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
1962 : Pravda criticizes western art
1964 : "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
1964 : KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
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
1966 : US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1967 : 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, S Africa)
1967 : Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)
1967 : Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia
1967 : Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1968 : Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from
1968 : knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters
1969 : John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
1970 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 : Miss Teenage America Pageant
1971 : Pres Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1972 : Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
1973 : Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
1975 : Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1976 : Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Ireland
1978 : "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
1979 : 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?]
1979 : 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern Cal (RB)
1979 : Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
1979 : Iran accepts constitution
1980 : NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
1981 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 : 1st NJ Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4
1982 : 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
1982 : NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
1982 : Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez
1983 : "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 perfs
1983 : 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)
1983 : France performs 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 Wisc
1985 : 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
1986 : Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
1988 : 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
1988 : NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1990 : NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
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
1995 : "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
1995 : "Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1995 : Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
1995 : Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
1997 : "1776," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
1997 : Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million,
1997 : contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo

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