December 03, 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
December 03, 2015 : US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces all combat roles in US armed forced will be opened to women
December 03, 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
December 03, 2014 : Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
December 03, 2014 : Australian Rugby star David Pocock is arrested after protesting against a coal mine under construction in an Australian national forest
December 03, 2011 : 7th ACC Championship Game: #21 Clemson beats #5 Virginia Tech, 38-10
December 03, 2011 : 20th SEC Championship Game: #1 LSU beats #16 Georgia, 42-10
December 03, 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
December 03, 2006 : 95th Davis Cup: Russia beats Argentina in Moscow (3-2)
December 03, 2005 : XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
December 03, 2005 : 1st ACC Championship Game: #22 Florida State beats #5 Virginia Tech, 27-22
December 03, 2005 : 14th SEC Championship Game: #13 Georgia beats #3 LSU, 34-14
December 03, 2005 : 10th Big 12 Championship Game: #2 Texas beats Colorado, 70-3
December 03, 1999 : Worcester cold storage and warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts claims lives of 6 firefighters
December 03, 1999 : NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere
December 03, 1997 : Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
December 03, 1997 : "1776" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
December 03, 1995 : Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
December 03, 1995 : Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
December 03, 1995 : Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v South Africa, a record
December 03, 1995 : Beth Daniels and Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
December 03, 1995 : 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
December 03, 1995 : "Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
December 03, 1995 : "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
December 03, 1994 : 3rd SEC Championship Game: #6 Florida beats #3 Alabama, 24-23
December 03, 1992 : UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
December 03, 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
December 03, 1991 : White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
December 03, 1991 : Muslim Shi'ites release US hostage Alan Steen
December 03, 1991 : Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
December 03, 1990 : NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
December 03, 1989 : Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
December 03, 1989 : Pat Bradley and Bill Glasson win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
December 03, 1988 : NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
December 03, 1988 : 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
December 03, 1986 : Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
December 03, 1985 : 7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for "Faerie Tale Theatre"
December 03, 1985 : 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
December 03, 1984 : Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured
December 03, 1984 : "Do They Know It's Christmas" single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and sung by Band Aid is released in the UK
December 03, 1983 : France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
December 03, 1983 : 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)
December 03, 1983 : 48th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-20 in Birmingham
December 03, 1983 : "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 performances
December 03, 1982 : Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez
December 03, 1982 : NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
December 03, 1982 : 77°F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio
December 03, 1982 : 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
December 03, 1982 : 1st NJ Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4
December 03, 1982 : "Frances", film depicting life of actress Frances Frances and starring Jessica Lange, first released in the US
December 03, 1981 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
December 03, 1981 : Beth Daniel and Tom Kite win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
December 03, 1980 : NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
December 03, 1979 : Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
December 03, 1979 : Iran accepts constitution
December 03, 1979 : Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
December 03, 1979 : 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB)
December 03, 1979 : 11 trampled to death at Who concert in Cincinnati
December 03, 1978 : Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
December 03, 1978 : "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
December 03, 1976 : Patrick J Hillery elected President of Ireland
December 03, 1975 : Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
December 03, 1973 : Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
December 03, 1972 : Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
December 03, 1971 : US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
December 03, 1971 : Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
December 03, 1970 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
December 03, 1969 : John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
December 03, 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
December 03, 1968 : NBC Elvis comeback special airs
December 03, 1967 : Fomrer Indonesian president Sukarno placed under house arrest
December 03, 1967 : Final run of "20th Century Limited" famed NY-Chicago luxury train
December 03, 1967 : Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)
December 03, 1967 : Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica
December 03, 1967 : 1st human heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard in South Africa
December 03, 1966 : US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi
December 03, 1966 : 31st Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-0 in Birmingham
December 03, 1965 : USSR launches Luna 8; it crashes on the Moon
December 03, 1965 : The Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
December 03, 1964 : Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
December 03, 1964 : KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
December 03, 1962 : Pravda criticizes western art
December 03, 1962 : Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
December 03, 1962 : 1963 NFL Draft: Terry Baker from Oregon State first pick by Los Angeles Rams
December 03, 1961 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
December 03, 1961 : The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
December 03, 1961 : George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
December 03, 1961 : Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
December 03, 1960 : Frederick Loewe nd Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot" premieres in NYC
December 03, 1960 : "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
December 03, 1959 : State of emergency in Cyprus ends
December 03, 1958 : Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
December 03, 1957 : 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
December 03, 1956 : Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
December 03, 1956 : KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
December 03, 1956 : Britain and France pull troops out of Egypt
December 03, 1955 : KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
December 03, 1954 : William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida" premieres in London
December 03, 1954 : Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard" premieres
December 03, 1953 : Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet
December 03, 1953 : Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party
December 03, 1953 : "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
December 03, 1953 : "In the Jailhouse Now" single recorded by Webb Pierce (Billboard Song of the Year 1955)
December 03, 1952 : Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela
December 03, 1952 : 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
December 03, 1950 : Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
December 03, 1950 : Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7)
December 03, 1950 : Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts
December 03, 1949 : KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
December 03, 1949 : 14th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 14-13 in Birmingham
December 03, 1948 : Don Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
December 03, 1948 : Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in East China Sea killing 1,100
December 03, 1948 : 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in
December 03, 1948 : "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
December 03, 1947 : Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in NYC
December 03, 1946 : US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
December 03, 1946 : 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
December 03, 1944 : US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald
December 03, 1944 : The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists
December 03, 1944 : NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger dissolves
December 03, 1944 : Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
December 03, 1944 : Hungarian death march of Jews ends
December 03, 1944 : British order to disarm causes general strike in Greece
December 03, 1944 : Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.
December 03, 1943 : Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony premieres
December 03, 1943 : Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
December 03, 1943 : 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
December 03, 1941 : Hitler views Poltava, Ukraine
December 03, 1939 : Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony premieres
December 03, 1938 : AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
December 03, 1934 : KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 03, 1934 : Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
December 03, 1933 : Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
December 03, 1933 : Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
December 03, 1932 : Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
December 03, 1932 : 20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6
December 03, 1931 : Alka Seltzer goes on sale
December 03, 1930 : Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London
December 03, 1930 : Otto Ender forms Austrian government
December 03, 1930 : Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley, Belgium)
December 03, 1929 : Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
December 03, 1926 : Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
December 03, 1926 : Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days
December 03, 1923 : First Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington, D.C.)
December 03, 1922 : First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
December 03, 1921 : 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
December 03, 1920 : Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
December 03, 1917 : The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement
December 03, 1917 : After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
December 03, 1915 : General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies
December 03, 1914 : Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
December 03, 1912 : Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
December 03, 1912 : Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
December 03, 1912 : First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
December 03, 1911 : Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
December 03, 1910 : Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
December 03, 1908 : Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A premieres
December 03, 1907 : George Cohan's musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in NYC
December 03, 1903 : Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh
December 03, 1901 : Milwaukee is dropped from the AL & replaced by St Louis Browns
December 03, 1883 : 48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes
December 03, 1881 : Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville (now Kinshasa)
December 03, 1878 : Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel
December 03, 1868 : 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
December 03, 1864 : Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
December 03, 1863 : Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
December 03, 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
December 03, 1847 : Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"
December 03, 1844 : RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
December 03, 1835 : First US mutual fire insurance company issues first policy (Rhode Island)
December 03, 1834 : First US dental society organized (NY)
December 03, 1833 : Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens
December 03, 1828 : Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
December 03, 1818 : Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
December 03, 1775 : First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred
December 03, 1736 : Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere
December 03, 1730 : Colley Cibber is appointed British Poet Laureate under King George II
December 03, 1699 : Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague
December 03, 1694 : English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
December 03, 1685 : Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm, Sweden
December 03, 1678 : Edmond Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford
December 03, 1676 : Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000
December 03, 1639 : 1st annulment by court decree passes
December 03, 1586 : Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
December 03, 1557 : 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
December 03, 1347 : Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics
December 03, 741 : St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
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