Today in History December 3

1800 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for President and Vice President that resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

1901 – In a State of the Union message, President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”.

1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California’s Lick Observatory.

1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

	1927: Putting Pants of Philip  27 years before Ms. Monroe’s famous flirtatious 1954 photo, Laurel and Hardy dealt with updraft to comic effect in their debut film

1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released. Click to watch

1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinibecomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.

1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000-600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Marilyn Monroe starred in The Seven Year Itch

1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

1994 – The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan

1997 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

	Self portrait  Gilbert Charles Stuart was an  American painter from Rhode Island.  He’s best known for the unfinished portrait of George Washington.  He started the painting in 1796 and it was incomplete when the artist died in 1828. Throughout his career, Gilbert Stuart painted over one thousand portraits, including the first six presidents.

1596 – Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (d. 1684)

1755 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (d. 1828)

1826 – George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1885)

1842 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, founded the Pillsbury Company (d. 1899)

1895 – Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1982)

1930 – Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss director and screenwriter

1951 – Rick Mears, American race car driver

1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)

1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (b. 1841)

1956 – Alexander Rodchenko, Russian sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (b. 1891)

2014 – Herman Badillo, lawyer and politician (b. 1929)