Today in History

December 3

1808 - Madrid surrenders to Napoleon Bonaparte’s French forces.

1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected the seventh President of the United States. 1868 - William Gladstone becomes British Prime Minister.

1912 - Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro sign an armistice.

1965 - The Soviet Union launches its Luna 8 space probe.

1984 - Thousands of people die of poison gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India.

1996 - A bomb explodes on a commuter train in Paris, killing four people and injuring 86.

1998 - A fire in an orphanage in Manila kills at least 28 people.

2015 - Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.