Saturday, December 03, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

DECEMBER 3, 1964

Nearly 800 students are arrested at the University of California in Berkeley after staging a massive Free Speech Movement sit-in at Sproul Hall to assert their rights to hold political protests on campus.

1833: Twenty-nine men and 15 women enroll at Oberlin College, making it the first coeducational institution of higher learning in the United States.

1989: President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet aboard the Russian cruiser Maxim Gorky off the coast of Malta, to informally declare an end to the Cold War.
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