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