December 3rd:
1967- 1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
1989- Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
1639- 1st annulment by court decree passes
1775- First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred
1828- Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
1833- Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens
1847- Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper “North Star”
1863- Confederate General James Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1868- 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
1920- Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
1926- Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days
1931- Alka Seltzer goes on sale
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