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