- 1775 - First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.
- 1847 - Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star".
- 1863 - Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.
- 1911 - Willis Carrier presents his influencial "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- 1947 - A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
Today's Date in History
Saturday 3 December 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History ( 3rd December )
Friday 2 December 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (2nd December )
- 1697- St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London).
- 1779 - Washington establishes winter quarters at Morristown.
- 1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-president.
- 1868 - 1st British government of Benjamin Disraeli resigns.
- 1942 - The Allies repel a strong Axis attack in Tunisia, North Africa.
Thursday 1 December 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (1st December )
- 1862 - Lincoln’s State of the Union address.
- 1925 - After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.
- 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's segregationist laws.
- 1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year.
- 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller".
Wednesday 30 November 2016
6 event in Today's Date in History (30th November )
- 1648 - English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I.
- 1858 - Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in Munshiganj, Bengal Presidency, (present day Bangladesh) on 30 November.
- 1909 - British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget', which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.
- 1950 - President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
- 1970 - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass".
- 1989- “America’s First Female Serial Killer” strikes.
Tuesday 29 November 2016
Top 5 event in Today's Date in History ( 29th November )
- 1864 - Colonel John M. Chivington's 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles' camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo.
- 1868 - "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston.
- 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
- 1929 - Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.
- 1952 - US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war.
Monday 28 November 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (28th November )
- 1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellanbegins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
- 1795 - US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis.
- 1868 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
- 1893 - Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.
- 1930 - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres.
Sunday 27 November 2016
5 event in Today's Date in History (27th November )
- 1895 - Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize.
- 1941 - The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 1945 - Gen George Marshall named special US envoy to China.
- 1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote.
- 1978 - San Francisco leaders George Moscone and Harvey Milk are murdered.
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