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Events on the 3rd of December in history

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03 Dec 0741 St. Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
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03 Dec 0915 Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor.
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03 Dec 1347 Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics
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03 Dec 1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
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03 Dec 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
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03 Dec 1621 Galileo invents telescope
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03 Dec 1639 1st annulment by court decree passes
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03 Dec 1676 Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen
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03 Dec 1685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
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03 Dec 1694 English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
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03 Dec 1699 Baron Jacob Hop appointed Treasurer General of the Hague
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03 Dec 1775 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
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03 Dec 1799 War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch – Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
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03 Dec 1800 War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – French General Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war.
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03 Dec 1818 Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
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03 Dec 1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
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03 Dec 1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th President of US
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03 Dec 1833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
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03 Dec 1834 1st US dental society organized (NY)
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03 Dec 1834 The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
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03 Dec 1835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
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03 Dec 1844 RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
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03 Dec 1847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
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03 Dec 1854 Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
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03 Dec 1863 Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, Tennessee
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03 Dec 1866 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies
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03 Dec 1868 Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
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03 Dec 1878 Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel
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03 Dec 1881 Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville / Kinshasa
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03 Dec 1883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
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03 Dec 1893 Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia
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03 Dec 1898 The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players 16-0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
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03 Dec 1901 Milwaukee is dropped from the AL and replaced by St. Louis Browns
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03 Dec 1901 In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt asks Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
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03 Dec 1903 Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh
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03 Dec 1904 The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
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03 Dec 1907 George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town, " premieres in New York City
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03 Dec 1910 Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)
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03 Dec 1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
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03 Dec 1912 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
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03 Dec 1912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact
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03 Dec 1912 Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
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03 Dec 1919 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
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03 Dec 1920 Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty
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03 Dec 1921 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
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03 Dec 1922 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City
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03 Dec 1923 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington, DC)
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03 Dec 1925 World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
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03 Dec 1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr / Red Army work together)
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03 Dec 1927 Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
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03 Dec 1929 Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
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03 Dec 1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
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03 Dec 1930 Otto Ender forms Austrian government
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03 Dec 1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
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03 Dec 1932 20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6
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03 Dec 1932 Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
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03 Dec 1933 Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Detroit Tigers for $100,000
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03 Dec 1933 Joe Lilliard QBs Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
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03 Dec 1934 Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
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03 Dec 1934 KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Philadelphia Penn
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03 Dec 1941 Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
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03 Dec 1943 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
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03 Dec 1943 Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
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03 Dec 1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
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03 Dec 1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends
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03 Dec 1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
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03 Dec 1944 NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
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03 Dec 1944 Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
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03 Dec 1946 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
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03 Dec 1946 US government asks UN to order Dictator Franco out of Spain
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03 Dec 1948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
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03 Dec 1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
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03 Dec 1948 Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
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03 Dec 1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
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03 Dec 1949 KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
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03 Dec 1950 Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7)
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03 Dec 1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
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03 Dec 1952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
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03 Dec 1953 "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
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03 Dec 1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
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03 Dec 1955 KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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03 Dec 1956 England and France pull troops out of Egypt
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03 Dec 1956 KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
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03 Dec 1957 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
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03 Dec 1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
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03 Dec 1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends
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03 Dec 1959 The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
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03 Dec 1960 "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
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03 Dec 1960 The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
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03 Dec 1961 Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
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03 Dec 1961 Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
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03 Dec 1961 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
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03 Dec 1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
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03 Dec 1962 Pravda criticizes western art
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03 Dec 1964 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
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03 Dec 1964 KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Dec 1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
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03 Dec 1964 Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
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03 Dec 1965 Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
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03 Dec 1965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
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03 Dec 1967 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa)
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03 Dec 1967 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)
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03 Dec 1967 Ex-President Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia
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03 Dec 1967 Final run of "20th Century Limited, " famed NY-Chicago luxury train
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03 Dec 1967 At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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03 Dec 1969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
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03 Dec 1971 Miss Teenage America Pageant
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03 Dec 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
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03 Dec 1972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
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03 Dec 1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
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03 Dec 1973 Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
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03 Dec 1976 Dr Patrick J Hillery elected President of Iraq
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03 Dec 1976 An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, and plays a concert two days later.
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03 Dec 1978 "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
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03 Dec 1979 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB)
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03 Dec 1979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
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03 Dec 1979 Iran accepts constitution
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03 Dec 1979 In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
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03 Dec 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
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03 Dec 1980 New York Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty
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03 Dec 1982 1st New Jersey Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4
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03 Dec 1982 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
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03 Dec 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
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03 Dec 1982 Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez
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03 Dec 1982 A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
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03 Dec 1983 "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 performances
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03 Dec 1983 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)
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03 Dec 1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
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03 Dec 1984 Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc
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03 Dec 1984 Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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03 Dec 1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B) - Atlantis 2 lands at Edwards AFB
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03 Dec 1986 Sri Lanka all out 55 vs. WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
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03 Dec 1988 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
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03 Dec 1988 New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
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03 Dec 1989 Pat Bradley / Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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03 Dec 1989 Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
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03 Dec 1990 NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
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03 Dec 1990 The 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision kills seven passengers and one crew member.
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03 Dec 1991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
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03 Dec 1991 Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
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03 Dec 1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
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03 Dec 1992 UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
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03 Dec 1992 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
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03 Dec 1992 A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
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03 Dec 1994 The PlayStation was released in Japan
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03 Dec 1995 "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
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03 Dec 1995 "Holiday" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 49 performances
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03 Dec 1995 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
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03 Dec 1995 Beth Daniels / Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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03 Dec 1995 Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
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03 Dec 1995 Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
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03 Dec 1997 "1776, " opens at Gershwin Theater, New York City
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03 Dec 1997 Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
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03 Dec 1997 In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
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03 Dec 1999 NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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03 Dec 1999 Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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03 Dec 2005 XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
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03 Dec 2007 Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
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03 Dec 2009 A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
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03 Dec 2012 At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
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03 Dec 2012 In Northern Ireland, 15 police officers are injured during rioting at Belfast City Hall following a vote to change Belfast City Council's policy on flying the union flag.
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03 Dec 2014 The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to a asteroid to collect rock samples.
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