Historical Events In December - 03

1931  On December - 03 alka Seltzer goes on sale  

1931  On this day in history ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director (Sonja)  

1932  20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6 on this day in history.  

1932  On this day in history corry Brokken, Dutch singer  

1933  On December - 03 connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000  

1933  On December - 03 paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate  

1933  Richard Henry Warren, composer, dies at 74 on December - 03.  

1934  On December - 03 italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya  

1934  Nicolas Coster, actor (Robert Delaney-Another World) on December - 03.  

1937  Bobby Allison, auto racer (3 time winner of Daytona 500) on December - 03.  

1937  On December - 03 prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor, dies  

1938  AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric on December - 03.  

1938  Jose Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon) on December - 03.  

1939  Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres on December - 03.  

1941  On December - 03 hitler views Poltava Ukraine  

1941  Johann Christian August Sinding, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1942  On this day in history wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer, dies at 75  

1943  9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB) on December - 03.  

1944  Civil War breaks out in Greece on this day in history.  

1944  Civil War starts in Athens Greece on this day in history.  

1944  On December - 03 british order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece  

1944  On December - 03 delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75  

1946  On December - 03 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)  

1947  Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire makes its Broadway debut on December - 03.  

1947  On December - 03 tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC  

1948  "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss) on this day in history.  

1948  Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 on this day in history.  

1948  First US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in on this day in history.  

1949  KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins on this day in history.  

1949  On December - 03 elin Pelin, writer, dies  

1950  Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7) on this day in history.  

1952  First TV broadcast in Hawaii on this day in history.  

1952  On December - 03 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii  

1953  "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances on December - 03.  

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1368  On December - 03 birth of charles VI, [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422)  

1483  On December - 03 birth of nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist  

1560  On December - 03 birth of jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627)  

1576  Marsilio Casentini, composer was born on this day in history.  

1668  On this day in history birth of casimir Schweizelsperg, composer  

1684  On December - 03 birth of ludvig Baron Holberg, founder (Danish & Norwegian literature)  

1729  On this day in history birth of padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler, Olot Spain, composer (Fandango)  

1750  On this day in history birth of johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer  

0450  Petrus Chrysologus, 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies on December - 03.  

1137  Lotharius III, of Supplinburg, Roman-Ger emperor (1133-37), dies at 67 on December - 03.  

1154  On December - 03 anastasius IV, Pope (1153-54), dies  

1265  On this day in history death of odofredus, Italian jurist  

1463  Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies on this day in history.  

1469  On December - 03 piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at about 53  

1491  On this day in history thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies  

1533  Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54 on December - 03.