Today in history, Dec 3rd!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 3rd!

1468	Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano succeed their father, Piero de Medici, as rulers of Florence, Italy.
1762	France cedes to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi–the territory known as Upper Louisiana.
1800	The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenlinden, near Munich.
1818	Illinois was admitted to the union as the 21st state.
1828	Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States.
1847	Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper.
1862	Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn.
1863	Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.
1864	Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea.
1906	The U.S. Supreme Court orders Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case.
1915	The United States expels German attaches on spy charges.
1916	French commander Joseph Joffre is dismissed after his failure at the Somme. General Robert Nivelle is the new French commander in chief.
1918	The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war.
1925	The League of Nations orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the October invasion of Bulgaria.
1926	British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union.
1947	“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1948	The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
1950	The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward.
1964	Police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley who had stormed the administration buildingthe previous day and staged a massive sit-in.
1965	The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam.
1965	The album “Rubber Soul” by the Beatles was released.
1967	Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
1967	The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.
1977	The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States.
1979	Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1984	Toxic gas leaks from a Union Carbide plant and results in the deaths of thousands in Bhopal, India.
1989	Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta.
1989	East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party’s Central Committee resigned.
1997	South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.
1999	Scientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed.
2009	Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal.

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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