Notable Historical Events on December 3rd
December 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
741 |
St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III |
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 |
1639 |
1st annulment by court decree passes |
1676 |
Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000 |
1678 |
Edmund Halley receives MA from The 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 |
1736 |
Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere |
1775 |
1st official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred |
1818 |
Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day) |
1828 |
Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President |
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" |
1854 |
Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. |
1863 |
longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN |
1864 |
Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia |
1866 |
Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies |
1868 |
1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial |
1878 |
Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel |
1881 |
Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville/Kinshasa |
1883 |
48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes |
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 first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show) |
1912 |
Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer |
1912 |
Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact |
1912 |
First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place. |
1914 |
Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers: 8 killed |
1915 |
General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies |
1917 |
After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. |
1920 |
Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty |
1921 |
9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0 |
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) |
1926 |
Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days |
1929 |
Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak |
1930 |
Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley, Belgium) |
1930 |
Otto Ender forms Austrian government |
1930 |
Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London |
1931 |
Alka Seltzer goes on sale |
1932 |
20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6 |
1932 |
Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany |
1933 |
Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000 |
1933 |
Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946 |
1934 |
Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya |
1934 |
KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn |
1938 |
AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric |
1939 |
Dmitri Shostakovich'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 |
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 |
NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves |
1944 |
US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald |
1944 |
The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists. |
1944 |
Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London. |
1946 |
12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB) |
1946 |
US government 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 |
Don 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 last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7) |
1950 |
Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast |
1950 |
Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts |
1952 |
1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
1952 |
Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela |
1953 |
"Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances |
1953 |
Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican 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 |
Bitain and France pull troops out of Egypt |
1956 |
KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1956 |
Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52) |
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 non-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 |
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, South 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 |
1967 |
Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica |
1968 |
NBC Elvis comeback special airs |
1968 |
Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from 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 |
US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term |
1971 |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. |
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 |
Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland |
1978 |
"King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1978 |
Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1979 |
11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert |
1979 |
45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern Cal (RB) |
1979 |
Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400 |
1979 |
Iran accepts constitution |
1979 |
Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area. |
1980 |
NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty |
1981 |
Beth Daniel/Tom Kite win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
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 |
77°F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio |
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 |
1985 |
23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB |
1985 |
7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for "Faerie Tale Theatre" |
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) |
1989 |
Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1989 |
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over |
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 Shiites 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 |
The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo. |
1995 |
"Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances |
1995 |
"Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances |
1995 |
84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2) |
1995 |
Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
1995 |
Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v South Africa, a record |
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, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo |
1999 |
NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. |
2005 |
XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California. |
2006 |
95th Davis Cup: Russia beats Argentina in Moscow (3-2) |
2007 |
Devastating winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars of damaged are blamed on the floods. |
2015 |
Swiss police arrest FIFA officials suspected of taking millions in bribes |
2016 |
Trump Speaks With Taiwan's Leader, an Affront to China |
2016 |
Trump supporters file suit to stop Wisconsin recount |
2016 |
Trump breaks US policy stance with direct Taiwan call |
2016 |
Nico Rosberg quits F1 after becoming world champion |
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