Today is Friday, December 3, the 337th day of 2010. There are 28 days left in the year.
1621 ― Galileo perfects the telescope
1910 ― Neon lights, first publically seen (Paris Auto Show)
1922 ― First successful Technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York, N.Y.
1939 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Symphony, premieres
1946 ― U.S. government asks U.N. to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1947 ― Tennessee Williams play ``A Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in New York, N.Y.
1953 ― Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Republican party
1965 ― Beatles begin final U.K. concert tour in Glasgow
1984 ― 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1984 ― Oldest groom; Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin