December 3: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
2. 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrineat California's Lick Observatory.
3. 1910 - Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claudeat the Paris Motor Show.
4. 1925 - World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
5. 1967 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
6. 1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
7. 1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between NATO and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
8. 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.
9. 1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
10. 2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
11. Famous Birthdays: Nicola Amati (Italian violin maker), Gilbert Stuart (American painter), Ellen Swallow Richards (American chemist), Manne Siegbahn (Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), Richard Kuhn (Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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