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.