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Birthday December 03, 1368 Charles VI, (the Well-Beloved), king of France (1380-1422) |
Birthday December 03, 1729 Antonio Soler, Spain composer |
Birthday December 03, 1755 Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter, painted Washington |
Birthday December 03, 1826 George McClellan born |
Birthday December 03, 1857 Joseph Conrad, in Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) |
Birthday December 03, 1879 Sir Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp |
Birthday December 03, 1883 Anton von Webern, Austrian 12-tone composer |
Birthday December 03, 1895 Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter |
Birthday December 03, 1900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel '38) |
Birthday December 03, 1923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams) |
Birthday December 03, 1924 John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language |
Birthday December 03, 1927 Ferlin Husky, Country singer |
Birthday December 03, 1930 Andy Williams, singer (Moon River) |
Birthday December 03, 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker |
Birthday December 03, 1930 Phyllis Curtin, in West Virginia |
Birthday December 03, 1931 Jaye P Morgan, in Mancos Cal |
Birthday December 03, 1934 Viktor V. Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37) |
Birthday December 03, 1943 Jim Morrison, rock musician (Doors) |
Birthday December 03, 1948 Ozzy Osbourne, eat a bat |
Birthday December 03, 1948 Heavy-metal legend Ozzy Osbourne born |
History December 03, 1621 Galileo invents telescope |
History December 03, 1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College Oxford |
History December 03, 1776 Washington arrives at the banks of the Delaware |
History December 03, 1818 Illinois becomes 21st state |
History December 03, 1818 Illinois becomes the 21st state |
History December 03, 1828 Andrew Jackson elected pres |
History December 03, 1833 Oberlin College in Oh 1st truly coeducational college opens |
History December 03, 1839 Lincoln reaches legal milestone |
History December 03, 1857 Joseph Conrad's birthday |
History December 03, 1866 Paid Fire Dept takes over from volunteer companies |
History December 03, 1912 First Balkan War ends |
History December 03, 1916 Nivelle replaces Joffre as French commander |
History December 03, 1933 Joe Lilliard QBed Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946 |
History December 03, 1944 Civil war breaks out in Athens |
History December 03, 1947 Tennessee Williams play `A Streetcar Named Desire ' opens |
History December 03, 1948 Pumpkin Papers came to light |
History December 03, 1950 Cleve Browns last NFL team with no pass game (beat Phila 13-7) |
History December 03, 1952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
History December 03, 1954 Joseph McCarthy condemned by Senate |
History December 03, 1962 Report maintains that Viet Cong are prepared for a long war |
History December 03, 1964 Police arrests 800 at U of Cal at Berkeley |
History December 03, 1965 Memorandum outlines terms for bombing halt |
History December 03, 1967 First human heart transplant |
History December 03, 1967 20th Century Ltd famed NY-Chic luxury train final run |
History December 03, 1967 1st human heart transplant performed (Capetown South Africa) |
History December 03, 1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) |
History December 03, 1979 11 die at Riverfront Coliseum Cin at a Who concert |
History December 03, 1979 Last AMC Pacer rolls off assembly line |
History December 03, 1979 Eleven people killed in a stampede outside Who concert in Cincinnati, Ohio |
History December 03, 1979 Indian field hockey gold medalist Dhyan Chand dies |
History December 03, 1980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy D-NY guilty |
History December 03, 1984 Explosion kills 2,000 at pesticide plant |
History December 03, 1984 2000 die in Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal India |
History December 03, 1984 The Bhopal-Union Carbide disaster |
History December 03, 1985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth |
History December 03, 1989 Bush and Gorbachev suggest Cold War is coming to an end |
History December 03, 1989 The clothes make the man . . . guilty |