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On this day - December 3

2009-12-03 07:58
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Today is Friday, December 3, the 337th day of 2010. There are 28 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1621 - Galileo perfects the telescope.

1694 - Triennial Bill becomes law in England, providing for new Parliament to be elected every third year.

1775 - Lieutenant John Paul Jones hoists the first seagoing American flag on the newly commissioned continental Naval ship, the Alfred.

1808 - Madrid surrenders to Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces.

1810 - British capture Mauritius from French.

1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected the seventh president of the United States.

1912 - Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro sign an armistice.

1944 - US forces cross Saar River in Germany in World War II.

1948 - The House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee announces former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers produced a microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.

1952 - UN General Assembly adopts India's proposal for Korean armistice.

1958 - Dutch businesses are nationalised in Indonesia.

1961 - United States deploys platoon of troops along border between East and West Berlin as East Germany begins strengthening Berlin Wall.

1962 - London is blanketed by one of the worst fogs in years, and scores of people die of sulphur dioxide poisoning before fog lifts four days later.

1964 - Police arrest some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in.

1967 - Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant. Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with the new heart.

1970 - British envoy James R Cross is rescued after being held by Quebec terrorists in Canada for almost two months.

1971 - India declares state of emergency as Pakistani planes attack northwestern India in dispute over Kashmir.

1975 - Communists take control of Laos and declare end to 600-year-old monarchy.

1979 - Christie's auction house in New York sets a record, selling a thimble for $18 400.

1984 - More than 4 000 people die after a cloud of gas escapes from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.

1988 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in first official act, calls for release of about 1 000 political prisoners and commutes all death sentences.

1990 - Two jets taxing for a takeoff at Detroit airport collide killing nine people.

1991 - Alann Steen, an American held hostage for nearly five years, is released by Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Beirut.

1992 - A spill of millions of gallons of crude oil off the coast of La Coruna, Spain, threatens ecological disaster.

1993 - The United States and Ukraine fail to resolve a dispute over Ukraine's stockpile of more than 1 000 long-range nuclear warheads.

1996 - A bomb explodes on a commuter train in Paris, killing four people and injuring 86.

1997 - South Korea strikes a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a record $55bn bailout of its foundering economy; representatives of more than 120 nations gather in Ottawa, Canada, to sign a treaty banning land mines.

1998 - Making their first collective decision about monetary policy, 11 European nations cut interest rates in a surprise move to fight the global economic slowdown.

1999 - Tori Murden, a Kentucky lawyer, becomes the first American - and first woman - to row 4 800km across the Atlantic alone.

2000 - Pakistan offers a truce to Indian soldiers along the disputed Kashmir border.

2001 - Israel attacks Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to suicide bombings by the militant group Hamas that killed 25 people.

2002 - World Food Programme warns the UN Security Council that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa. The southern nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia and Mozambique are among the worst affected.

2004 - President Alvaro Uribe signs the final order Friday to extradite Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, leader of the once-feared feared Cali drug cartel and the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever face trial in the United States.

2006 - Separate clashes between rival political activists and police in Bangladesh leave one man dead and dozens injured, as a major political alliance stages a nationwide transport blockade to force electoral reforms.

2007 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez loses a constitutional vote that would have let him run for re-election indefinitely.

2008 - Russia says it is sending a warship through the Panama Canal for the first time since World War II, a short journey loaded with symbolic weight: the destroyer will dock at a former US naval base, showcasing Russia's growing influence in the region.

Today's Birthdays:
Aaron Ludwig Holberg, Danish philosopher-poet (1684-1754); Joseph Conrad, Polish-British writer (1857-1924); Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst (1895-1982); Andy Williams, US Singer (1927--); Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (1930--); Ozzy Osbourne, British rock singer (1948--); Daryl Hannah, US actress (1960--); Julianne Moore, US actress (1960--).

Thought For Today:
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat - Chinese proverb.

Sapa-AP

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