Today in History: December 3
—
1864 - Major General William Tecumseh Sherman meets with slight resistance from Confederate troops at Thomas Station on his march to the sea.
1918 - The Allied Conference ends in London where they decide that Germany must pay for the war.
1926 - British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union.
1950 - The Chinese close in on Pyongyang, Korea, and UN forces withdraw southward.
1964 - Police arrested ~800 students at UC Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in.
1971 - Border battles between India and Pakistan erupt into full-scale war when jets from West Pakistan attack at least four Indian airports.
1977 - The State Department proposes the admission of 10,000 more Vietnamese refugees to the United States.
1979 - Eleven are dead and eight injured in a mad rush to see a rock band (The Who) at a concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1988 - UK Health minister Edwina Currie declares during a TV interview "Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella"
1989 - Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev announce the official end to the Cold War at a meeting in Malta.
1992 - Two bombs planted by the IRA explode in the centre of Manchester injuring 65 people, leading to the evacuation of the city center.
1997 - 121 nations sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the manufacture or deployment of antipersonnel landmines; the PRC, USA, and USSR do not sign.
2002 - Thousands of personnel files released under a court order showed that the Archdiocese of Boston went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, including clergy who allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns.
–
https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/this-day-in-history.html
https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history