THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015

Today is Thursday, December 3, the 337th day of 2015. There are 28 days left in the year.

0741 ― St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III

1347 ― Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics

1557 ― 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form

1586 ― Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia

1621 ― Galileo perfects the telescope

1639 ― 1st annulment by court decree passes

1676 ― Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen

1678 ― Edmund Halley receives Master of Arts degree from Queen's College, Oxford

1685 ― Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden

1694 ― English parliamentary election set for every 3 years

1699 ― Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-General of the Hague

1775 ― 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)

1818 ― Illinois admitted as 21st US state

1828 ― Andrew Jackson elected 7th President of US, John C Calhoun Vice-President

1833 ― Oberlin College in Ohio, 1st truly coeducational college opens

1834 ― 1st US dental society organized (New York)

1835 ― 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (Rhode Island)

1844 ― Roman Catholic Society Apostole of Prayer forms

1847 ― Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper “North Star”

1863 ― Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville TN

1864 ― Skirmish at Thomas’ Station, Georgia

1866 ― Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies

1868 ― Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury

1878 ― Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel

1881 ― Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa

1883 ― 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes

1893 ― Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia

1901 ― Milwaukee is dropped from the American League & replaced by St Louis Browns

1903 ― Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh

1907 George Cohan's musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in New York NY

1908 Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres

1910 Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)

1912 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer

1912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact