5 event in Today's Date in History ( 3rd December )

1. 1775 - First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.
   
2. 1847 -  Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star".
   
3. 1863 - Confederate General James Longstreet moves his army east and north toward Greeneville. This withdrawal marks the end of the Fall Campaign in Tennessee.
   
4. 1911 -  Willis Carrier presents his influencial "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
   
5. 1947 - A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
   

5 event in Today's Date in History (2nd December )

1. 1697- St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London).
2. 1779 - Washington establishes winter quarters at Morristown.
3. 1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-president.
4. 1868 - 1st British government of Benjamin Disraeli resigns.
5. 1942 - The Allies repel a strong Axis attack in Tunisia, North Africa. 

5 event in Today's Date in History (1st December )

1. 1862 - Lincoln’s State of the Union address.
2. 1925 - After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany.
3. 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South's segregationist laws.
4. 1973 - Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year.
5. 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his album "Thriller".