MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2007

Today is Monday, December 3, the 337th day of 2007. There are 28 days left in the year.

741 _ St. Zachary begins his reign as Catholic pope succeeding Gregory III

1621 _ Galileo perfects the telescope

1818 _ Illinois admitted as the 21st U.S. state

1828 _ Andrew Jackson elected the seventh president of the U.S.

1912 _ Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign a weapons pact

1943 _ The battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins

1946 _ The U.S. government asks the U.N. to order dictator Franco out of Spain

1953 _ Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party

1953 _ Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th String Quartet

1958 _ Indonesian parliament accepts nationalization of Dutch businesses

1967 _ Ex-President Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia

1969 _ John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar

1984 _ 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India

1989 _ George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta