| 1468 |
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Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano succeed their father, Piero de Medici, as rulers of Florence, Italy. |
| 1762 |
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France cedes to Spain all lands west of the Mississippi–the territory known as Upper Louisiana. |
| 1818 |
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Illinois admitted into the Union as the 21st state. |
| 1800 |
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The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenlinden, near Munich. |
| 1847 |
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Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney establish the North Star, and anti-slavery paper. |
| 1862 |
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Confederate raiders attack a Federal forage train on the Hardin Pike near Nashville, Tenn. |
| 1863 |
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Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee. |
| 1864 |
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Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea. |
| 1906 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court orders Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders extradited to Idaho for trial in the Steunenberg murder case. |
| 1915 |
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The United States expels German attaches on spy charges. |
| 1916 |
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French commander Joseph Joffre is dismissed after his failure at the Somme. General Robert Nivelle is the new French commander in chief. |
| 1918 |
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The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war. |
| 1925 |
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The League of Nations orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the October invasion of Bulgaria. |
| 1926 |
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British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union. |
| 1950 |
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The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward. |
| 1965 |
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The National Council of Churches asks the United States to halt the massive bombings in North Vietnam. |
| 1977 |
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The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States. |
| 1979 |
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Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| 1984 |
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Toxic gas leaks from a Union Carbide plant and results in the deaths of thousands in Bhopal, India. |
| 1989 |
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Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta. |
| Born on December 3 |
| 1755 |
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Gilbert Stewart, portrait painter. |
| 1826 |
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George B. McClellan, Union general who defeated Robert E. Lee at Antietam and ran against Abraham Lincoln for president. |
| 1833 |
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Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban epidemiologist. |
| 1857 |
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Joseph Conrad, Polish-born novelist (Heart of Darkness, Nostromo). |
| 1922 |
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Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer. |
| 1925 |
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Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (Breathless). |
| 1933 |
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Paul Crutzen, Dutch chemist. |
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