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Historical Events

03 Dec 1347
Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Cola di Rienzo as heretics
03 Dec 1586
Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
03 Dec 1676
Battle of Lund (Scanian War) Swedish army of 8000 defeats much larger joint DanishDutch force of 13000
03 Dec 1685
Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
03 Dec 1694
English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
03 Dec 1699
Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague
03 Dec 1775
First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred
03 Dec 1818
Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
03 Dec 1833
Oberlin College in Ohio the first truly coeducational college opens
03 Dec 1835
First US mutual fire insurance company issues first policy (Rhode Island)
03 Dec 1854
Eureka Stockade In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat Victoria are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences
03 Dec 1901
At the MLB meeting the Milwaukee Brewers franchise is officially dropped from the American League and replaced by the St. Louis Browns
03 Dec 1903
Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh
03 Dec 1907
George Cohans musical Talk of the Town premieres in NYC
03 Dec 1910
Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
03 Dec 1912
Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
03 Dec 1912
Turkey Serbia Montenegro Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
03 Dec 1912
First Balkan War The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
03 Dec 1914
Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers 8 killed
03 Dec 1915
General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies
03 Dec 1917
After nearly 20 years of planning and construction the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
03 Dec 1917
The Supreme Allied War Council meeting at Versailles to define war aim fails to reach an agreement
03 Dec 1921
CFL Grey Cup Varsity Stadium Toronto Toronto Argonauts win 2nd Championship beat Edmonton Eskimos 23-0
03 Dec 1922
First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea) shown in NYC
03 Dec 1923
First Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington D.C.)
03 Dec 1926
Manchester Guardian (German ReichswehrRed Army work together)
03 Dec 1929
Boston Bruins beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 the first win of an NHL record 14-game winning streak and a 22-game home winning streak
03 Dec 1930
Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
03 Dec 1930
Richard RodgersL Harts musical Evergreen premieres in London
03 Dec 1932
CFL Grey Cup AAA Grounds Hamilton Hamilton Tigers defeat Regina Roughriders 25-6 for their 5th Championship
03 Dec 1932
Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
03 Dec 1933
Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals last NFL black until 1946
03 Dec 1934
Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
03 Dec 1934
KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Philadelphia Pennsylvania
03 Dec 1938
AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
03 Dec 1943
9th Heisman Trophy Award Angelo Bertelli Notre Dame (QB)
03 Dec 1944
British order to disarm causes general strike in Greece
03 Dec 1944
Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
03 Dec 1944
Temporary merger of 2 NFL teams the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Cardinals dissolves at finish of season WWII ends before start of 1945 season so both teams resume normal operations
03 Dec 1944
US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald
03 Dec 1944
The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece between communists and royalists
03 Dec 1944
Britains Home Guard (Dads Army) is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park London.
03 Dec 1946
12th Heisman Trophy Award Glenn Davis Army (HB)
03 Dec 1946
US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
03 Dec 1948
Pumpkin Papers come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
03 Dec 1948
1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in
03 Dec 1948
Chinese refugee ship Kiangya explodes in East China Sea killing 1100
03 Dec 1949
KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth TX (CBS) begins
03 Dec 1950
Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7)
03 Dec 1952
Marcos Perez Jimnez elected president of Venezuela
03 Dec 1953
Kismet opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
03 Dec 1953
Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich 5th String Quartet
03 Dec 1953
In the Jailhouse Now single recorded by Webb Pierce (Billboard Song of the Year 1955)
03 Dec 1954
William Waltons opera Troilus & Cressida premieres in London
03 Dec 1955
KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
03 Dec 1956
KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
03 Dec 1956
Australian 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of Kevin OHalloran John Devitt Murray Rose & Jon Henricks swim world record 823.6 to take the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics Roses 2nd of 3 gold at the Games
03 Dec 1957
23rd Heisman Trophy Award John Crow Texas A&M (HB)
03 Dec 1958
Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
03 Dec 1960
Camelot opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
03 Dec 1960
Frederick Loewe nd Alan Jay Lerners Camelot premieres in NYC
03 Dec 1961
Dutchman Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
03 Dec 1961
George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
03 Dec 1962
Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
03 Dec 1962
1963 NFL Draft Terry Baker from Oregon State first pick by Los Angeles Rams
03 Dec 1964
KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
03 Dec 1964
Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
03 Dec 1965
The Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
03 Dec 1966
US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Mississippi
03 Dec 1967
Australian Derek Clayton runs world marathon record 20936.4 at the Fukuoka Marathon in Japan
03 Dec 1967
Final run of 20th Century Limited famed NY-Chicago luxury train
03 Dec 1968
MLB Rules Committee adopts a series of changes designed to increase amount of offensive run production decreases strike zone size and lowers height of pitchers mound from 15 to 10 changes are successful
03 Dec 1970
Claude Ruel resigns as coach of the NHL Montreal Canadiens replacement Al MacNeil leads Habs to a Stanley Cup championship 5 months later
03 Dec 1971
Indo-Pakistani War of India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
03 Dec 1972
CFL Grey Cup Ivor Wynne Stadium Hamilton Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Saskatchewan Roughriders 13-10 Tiger-Cats first team in CFLs modern era to win Grey Cup at home
03 Dec 1972
Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island 155 die
03 Dec 1973
Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
03 Dec 1975
Laos falls to communist forces Lao Peoples Democratic Rep proclaimed
03 Dec 1976
Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland
03 Dec 1978
King of Hearts closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
03 Dec 1979
11 trampled to death at Who concert in Cincinnati
03 Dec 1979
45th Heisman Trophy Award Charles White Southern California (RB)
03 Dec 1979
Christies auctions a thimble for a record 18400
03 Dec 1979
Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
03 Dec 1980
NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy D-NY guilty
03 Dec 1980
Don Sutton the winningest pitcher in Los Angeles Dodgers history signs a 4-year contract with Houston Astros career shortened by a patellar fracture returns to Dodgers in 1988 after stints with 3 other MLB clubs
03 Dec 1982
35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork Arkansas (state record)
03 Dec 1982
77F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
03 Dec 1982
After losing his world welterweight boxing titles to Sugar Ray Leonard Thomas Hearns wins WBC Super Welterweight crown in a majority points decision over Wilfred Benitez at Superdome New Orleans
03 Dec 1983
Marilyn An American Fable closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 performances
03 Dec 1983
49th Heisman Trophy Award Mike Rozier Nebraska (RB)
03 Dec 1984
Bhopal disaster Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal India kills 2259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured
03 Dec 1985
23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
03 Dec 1986
Chasing the West Indies 2485 Sri Lanka is sensationally dismissed for just 55 in crickets Champions Trophy in Sharjah Windies pace bowler Courtney Walsh takes 5 for 1 in 4.3 overs
03 Dec 1986
Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
03 Dec 1988
54th Heisman Trophy Award Barry Sanders Oklahoma State (RB)
03 Dec 1988
NY Lotto pays 45 million to twelve winner (s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
03 Dec 1989
Stefan Edberg of Sweden claims his first and only ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title with a 46 76 63 61 win over defending champion Boris Becker at Madison Square Garden NYC
03 Dec 1991
White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
03 Dec 1992
UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
03 Dec 1992
The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea carrying 80000 tonnes of crude oil runs aground in a storm while approaching La Corua Spain and spills much of its cargo
03 Dec 1995
Company closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
03 Dec 1995
Holiday opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
03 Dec 1995
Davis Cup Tennis Moscow Pete Sampras beats Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-2 6-4 7-6 for an unassailable 3-1 American lead (ends 3-2)
03 Dec 1995
England cricket wicketkeeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
03 Dec 1995
Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
03 Dec 1995
Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
03 Dec 1995
Davis Cup Tennis Moscow Pete Sampras beats Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-2 6-4 7-6 to give US a winning 3-1 lead (ends 3-2) record 31st US title
03 Dec 1997
Golden State Warriors terminates guard Latrell Sprewells four-year 32 million NBA contract for attacking coach P.J. Carlesimo
03 Dec 1999
NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere
03 Dec 1999
Worcester cold storage and warehouse fire in Worcester Massachusetts claims lives of 6 firefighters
03 Dec 1999
Ottawa Senators right wing Kevin Dineen becomes 5th player in NHL history to score 300 career goals and record 2000 penalty minutes picks up a misconduct penalty in 7-4 loss to NJ Devils
03 Dec 2005
XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave California.
03 Dec 2005
1st ACC Championship Game 22 Florida State beats 5 Virginia Tech 27-22
03 Dec 2006
Davis Cup Tennis Moscow Marat Safin beats Jos Acasuso of Argentina 6-3 3-6 6-3 7-6 to clinch Russias 3-2 victory
03 Dec 2007
Devastating winter storms cause Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County Washington closing 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days resulting in at least eight deaths and billions of dollars of damage
03 Dec 2014
Darren Wilson the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri resigns
03 Dec 2014
Australian Rugby star David Pocock is arrested after protesting against a coal mine under construction in an Australian national forest
03 Dec 2014
Protests erupt in cities across the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner with a choke-hold
03 Dec 2015
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces all combat roles in US armed forced will be opened to women
03 Dec 2016
US army decides it will not allow an oil pipeline to be built in North Dakota after months of protests by The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
03 Dec 2017
First pizza party in space held by astronauts of the International Space Station
03 Dec 1971
India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives and starting the Indo-Pakistani War of
03 Dec 1995
England cricket wicket-keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
03 Dec 2018
Dutch court in Arnhem rejects mans request to legally be recognised 20 years younger
03 Dec 2018
7-year old Ryan of Ryan Toysreview is the years highest-paid YouTube star earning 22 million
03 Dec 1689
First recorded successful separation of conjoined twins Elisabet and Catherina Meijerin completed by Swiss surgeon Johannes Fatio in Basel [1]
03 Dec 1917
After nearly 20 years of planning and construction the Quebec Bridge finally opens to traffic after two prior collapses
03 Dec 1960
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay LernersCamelot opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
03 Dec 1943
World War II Battle of Monte Cassino Italy begins
03 Dec 1953
Robert Wright and George Forrests musical Kismet opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC runs for 583 performances
03 Dec 1953
Webb Pierce records single In the Jailhouse Now (Billboard Song of the Year 1955)
03 Dec 1960
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerners Camelot opens at Majestic Theater NYC runs for 873 performances
03 Dec 1965
The Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow Scotland
03 Dec 1965
Rubber Soul the sixth studio album by the Beatles is released in the United Kingdom
03 Dec 1966
Television pop group The Monkees make their live concert debut at the Honolulu International Centre Arena in Hawaii
03 Dec 1971
India invades West Pakistan claiming hundreds of lives and starting the full scale Indo-Pakistani War of
03 Dec 1979
11 members of the audience trampled to death during a stampede to claim unreserved seats for a concert by The Who at The Riverfront Coliseum Cincinnati Ohio
03 Dec 1983
Marilyn An American Fable closes at Minskoff Theatre NYC after 16 performances
03 Dec 2020
I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation warns Dr. Robert Redfield head of US CDC about the months ahead with COVID-19
03 Dec 2020
AT&T Incs Warner Bros studio announces all its 2021 movies will stream online the same day they appear in theatres because of the pandemic
03 Dec 1872
English Assyriologist George Smith reads his translation of The Great Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Society of Biblical Archaeology with striking similarities to the later flood of Noah in Genesis
03 Dec 1903
The Sultanate of Acehs Panglima Polim surrenders to Dutch Army Captain Hendrikus Colijn at Atjeh
03 Dec 1949
KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
03 Dec 1953
Robert Wright and George Forrests musical Kismet opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC runs for 583 performances wins Tony Award for Best Musical
03 Dec 1968
Elvis Presleys Comeback Special airs on NBC his 1st live performance in seven years re-launching his singing career
03 Dec 1995
Holiday opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC runs for 49 performances
03 Dec 1984
Bhopal disaster A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal India officially killing 2259 - other estimates are as high as 16000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured
03 Dec 1991
Muslim Shiites in Beirut Lebanon release US political hostage Alann Steen [1]
03 Dec 1992
UN Security Council passes Resolution 794 authorizing US led allied forces to intervene in war-torn Somalia to restore order and allow humanitarian aid to be delivered
03 Dec 1995
England cricket wicket keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
03 Dec 1995
Revival of Stephen Sondheims musical Company closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
03 Dec 2022
FBI investigate a targeted attack on two electricity substations in North Carolina which closes schools and leaves around 40000 without power for days [1]
03 Dec 2022
Former US President Donald Trump call for termination of all rules including US Constitution in a Truth Social post so to overturn the 2020 election which he again falsely claims that he won [1]
03 Dec 1347
Pope Clement VI declares Roman tribunal Cola di Rienzo as heretics
03 Dec 1856
Irishman James Kelly (24) and British soldier Jack Smith (34) fight longest bareknuckle boxing bout - 6 hours and 15 minutes at Fiery Creek Victoria Australia [1] [2]
03 Dec 1962
Edith Sampson sworn-in as 1st Black female judge in the state of Illinois
03 Dec 2022
Former US President Donald Trump calls in a Truth Social post for the termination of all rules including the US Constitution to overturn the 2020 election which he again falsely claims that he won. [1]
03 Dec 2022
Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool Las Vegas Nevada two-time defending champions Team Europe dominate US 11-7 MVP Joshua Filler (Germany)
03 Dec 2023
Indonesias Mount Marapi on island of Sumatra erupts 3km into the air killing 23 people [1]
03 Dec 2023
Israeli ground forces begin offensive in southern Gaza north of Khan Younis after a seven-day ceasefire expires [1]
03 Dec 1689
The first recorded successful separation of conjoined twins Elisabet and Catherina Meijerin is carried out by Swiss surgeon Johannes Fatio in Basel [1]
03 Dec 1907
George M. Cohans musical Talk of the Town premieres in NYC
03 Dec 1910
Neon lights are first publicly displayed at the Paris Auto Show
03 Dec 1933
As part of a famous MLB fire sale of players Philadelphia As owner Connie Mack sells catcher Mickey Cochrane to Detroit for 100000 Cochrane is immediately named Tigers manager
03 Dec 1941
Adolf Hitler views occupied Poltava in Ukraine
03 Dec 1953
Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich 5th String Quartet in Leningrad
03 Dec 1961
US performs underground nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
03 Dec 1962
Edith Sampson is sworn in as the first Black female judge in the state of Illinois
03 Dec 1967
Final run of 20th Century Limited famed New York-Chicago luxury train
03 Dec 1979
Christies in Geneva auctions a thimble for a record 18400
03 Dec 2009
Patrick Kane signs a five-year 31.5 million contract extension with the Chicago Blackhawks
03 Dec 2018
Dutch court in Arnhem rejects a mans request to be legally recognized as 20 years younger
03 Dec 2018
Seven-year old Ryan of Ryan Toysreview is the years highest-paid YouTube star earning 22 million
03 Dec 2019
World leaders discussing US President Donald Trump in unflattering terms at NATO reception caught on camera and goes viral
03 Dec 2024
Namibia elects its first woman president vice-president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah