December 3

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December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year.

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Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links

Events

2012 (Monday) 2011 (Saturday)

915 Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman 2010 (Friday) Emperor. 2009 (Thursday) 1799 War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at 2008 (Wednesday) Wiesloch. 2007 (Monday) 1800 War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden French General Moreau decisively defeats the Austrian Archduke John near 2006 (Sunday) Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory 2005 (Saturday) at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the 2004 (Friday) war. 1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. 1834 The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany. 1854 Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. 1898 The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated an all-star collection of early football players 16-0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football. 1901 In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt asks 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. 1912 Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) 1919 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. 1925 World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements. 1927 Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

1944 Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army. 1959 The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire. 1960 The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration. 1964 Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. 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). 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. 1973 Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. 1976 An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but will play a concert only two days later. 1979 In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert. 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran. 1982 A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. 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 150,000600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. 1989 Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George 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. 1990 At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482. 1992 UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia. 1992 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Corua, Spain, and spills much of its cargo. 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. 1997 In Ottawa, 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. 1999 NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. 1999 Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts. 2005 XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California. 2007 Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods. 2009 A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers

of the Transitional Federal Government. 2012 At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha, makes landfall in the Philippines.

Births
1368 Charles VI of France (d. 1422) 1560 Jan Gruter, Dutch critic and scholar (d. 1627) 1596 Nicola Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684) 1722 Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794) 1729 Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1783) 1755 Gilbert Stuart, American painter (d. 1828) 1800 France Preeren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849) 1826 George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1885) 1838 Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916) 1838 Octavia Hill, English activist (d. 1912) 1842 Phoebe Hearst, American philanthropist and activist (d. 1919) 1842 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, founded the Pillsbury Company (d. 1899) 1842 Ellen Swallow Richards, American chemist (d. 1911) 1857 Joseph Conrad, Polish-English author (d. 1924) 1864 Herman Heijermans, Dutch author (d. 1924) 1872 William Haselden, English cartoonist (d. 1953) 1875 mile Delchambre, French rower (d. 1958) 1875 Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (d. 1955) 1878 Francis A. Nixon, American businessman, father of Richard Nixon (d. 1956) 1879 Albert Asher, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1965) 1879 Charles Hutchison, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1949) 1879 Kaf Nagai, Japanese author and playwright (d. 1959) 1879 Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 4th Minister of Pensions and National Health (d. 1970) 1880 Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945) 1880 Alexander Hall, Canadian soccer player (d. 1943) 1883 Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945) 1884 Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (d. 1963) 1884 Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1965) 1886 Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978) 1887 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1990) 1888 Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-Irish rabbi (d. 1959) 1889 Khudiram Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1908) 1889 Cyrillus Kreek, Estonian composer (d. 1962) 1891 Thomas Farrell, American general, Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project (d. 1967) 1893 Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (d. 1963) 1894 Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1975) 1895 Te Ata Fisher, Chickasaw-American actress and storyteller (d. 1995) 1895 Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst (d. 1982) 1899 Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965) 1900 Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2004) 1900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

1902 Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator (d. 1976) 1902 Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist (d. 1993) 1908 Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989) 1911 Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979) 1918 Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general, Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (d. 2000) 1921 Phyllis Curtin, American soprano 1922 Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006) 1923 Dede Allen, American film editor (d. 2010) 1923 Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer and manager (d. 2010) 1923 Moyra Fraser, Australian-English actress and dancer (d. 2009) 1924 Wiel Coerver, Dutch football manager (d. 2011) 1924 F. Sionil Jos, Filipino author 1924 Roberto Mieres, Argentine race car driver (d. 2012) 1924 John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007) 1925 Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) 1925 Ferlin Husky, American singer (d. 2011) 1927 Andy Williams, American singer and actor (The Williams Brothers) (d. 2012) 1928 Thomas M. Foglietta, American politician and diplomat (d. 2004) 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss director and screenwriter 1931 Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author 1931 Jaye P. Morgan, American singer and actress 1932 Corry Brokken, Dutch singer 1933 Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1934 Nicolas Coster, American actor 1934 Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut 1934 Abimael Guzmn, Peruvian philosopher and revolutionary, leader of the Shining Path 1935 Eddie Bernice Johnson, American politician 1937 Bobby Allison, American race car driver 1937 Morgan Llywelyn, American-Irish author 1937 Binod Bihari Verma, Indian doctor and author (d. 2003) 1938 Jean-Claude Malpart, Canadian politician, MP for LaurierSainte-Marie (d. 1989) 1940 Jeffrey R. Holland, American educator and religious leader 1942 Alice Schwarzer, German journalist, founded EMMA Magazine 1942 David K. Shipler, American author 1943 J. Philippe Rushton, Canadian academic and theorist (d. 2012) 1945 Paul Nicholas English actor and singer 1946 Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist 1947 Patricia Krenwinkel, American murderer 1948 Jan Hrub, Czech violinist and songwriter (Framus Five and Etc...) 1948 Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter and actor (Black Sabbath) 1949 John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997) 1949 Heather Menzies, American actress 1949 Mickey Thomas, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Starship) 1950 Alberto Juantorena, Cuban runner 1951 Mike Bantom, American basketball player 1951 Ray Candy, American wrestler (d. 1994) 1951 Riki Chsh, South Korean-Japanese wrestler

1951 Rick Mears, American race car driver 1951 Greg Rice, American actor 1951 John Rice, American actor (d. 2005) 1951 Nicky Stevens, Welsh singer (Brotherhood of Man) 1952 Don Barnes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (38 Special) 1952 Benny Hinn, American evangelist and author 1952 Mel Smith, English comedian, actor, director, and producer (d. 2013) 1953 Franz Klammer, Austrian skier 1953 Lothar Schneider, German footballer 1954 Grace Andreacchi, American author 1955 Steven Culp, American actor 1955 Warren Jeffs, American religious leader, President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1957 Valerie Quennessen, French actress (d. 1989) 1959 Eamonn Holmes, Irish journalist 1960 Daryl Hannah, American actress 1960 Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player 1960 Julianne Moore, American actress 1960 Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player 1961 Adal Ramones, Mexican comedian and actor 1963 Joe Lally, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Fugazi and Ataxia) 1963 Terri Schiavo, American right to die patient (d. 2005) 1963 Scott Ian, American musician (Anthrax) 1965 Steve Harris, American actor 1965 Andrew Stanton, American director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor 1965 Katarina Witt, German figure skater 1966 Monic Hendrickx, Dutch actress 1966 Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer 1966 Irina Zhuk, Russian figure skater and coach 1968 Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor 1968 Montell Jordan, American singer-songwriter and producer 1969 Bill Steer, English guitarist and songwriter (Carcass, Firebird, Angel Witch, and Gentlemans Pistols) 1970 Paul Byrd, American baseball player 1970 Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player 1970 Christian Karembeu, French footballer 1970 Lu Parker, American journalist, Miss USA 1994 1971 Ola Rapace, Swedish actor 1971 Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer 1971 Henk Timmer, Dutch footballer 1971 Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress 1971 Vernon White, American mixed martial artist 1972 Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder 1973 Holly Marie Combs, American actress 1973 Super Crazy, Mexican wrestler 1973 MC Frontalot, American rapper 1973 Sammy Leung, Hong Kong singer and actor 1975 Mickey Avalon, American rapper 1975 Malinda Williams, American actress

1976 Mark Boucher, South African cricketer 1976 Silvia Fontana, Italian figure skater 1976 Gary Glover, American baseball player 1976 Cornelius Griffin, American football player 1976 Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby player 1976 Todd Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dog Fashion Disco, Polkadot Cadaver, The Alter Boys, and Knives Out!) 1977 Chad Durbin, American baseball player 1977 Troy Evans, American football player 1977 Adam Maysz, Polish ski jumper 1978 Trina, American rapper 1978 Daniel Alexandersson, Swedish footballer 1978 Ji Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player 1978 Bram Tankink, Dutch cyclist 1979 Daniel Bedingfield, New Zealand-English singer-songwriter 1979 Rock Cartwright, American football player 1979 Tiffany Haddish, American actress and dancer 1979 Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor 1979 Sean Parker, American businessman, co-founded Napster 1980 Anna Chlumsky, American actress 1980 Jenna Dewan, American actress 1980 Zlata Filipovi, Bosnian author 1980 Laryea Kingston, Ghanaian football player 1980 Jim Sorgi, American football player 1981 Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer 1981 Brian Bonsall, American actor 1981 Tyjuan Hagler, American football player 1981 Liza Lapira, American actress 1981 Louise Roe, English model and journalist 1981 Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (d. 2010) 1981 David Villa, Spanish footballer 1982 Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer 1982 Manny Corpas, Panamanian baseball player 1982 Lewis Marnell, Swedish-Australian professional skateboarder (d. 2013) 1982 Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer 1982 Franco Sbaraglini, Argentine-Italian rugby player 1983 Stephen Donald, New Zealand rugby player 1983 Sherri DuPree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Eisley) 1983 James Ihedigbo, American football player 1983 Kati Tolmoff, Estonian badminton player 1984 Hind Laroussi, Dutch singer 1984 Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer 1985 Lszl Cseh, Hungarian swimmer 1985 Mike Randolph, American footballer 1985 Mohit Sehgal, Indian actor 1985 Sla ahin, German actress 1985 Amanda Seyfried, American actress and singer 1985 Robert Swift, American basketball player 1985 Marcus Williams, American basketball player

1986 Frank Elegar, American Virgin Islander basketball player 1986 James Laurinaitis, American football player 1986 Radek Smolek, Czech ice hockey player 1986 Josh Vaughan, American football player 1987 Michael Angarano, American actor 1987 Brian Robiskie, American football player 1987 Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast 1989 Seluk Alibaz, Turkish footballer 1990 Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player 1991 Ekaterine Gorgodze, Georgian tennis player 1992 Joseph McManners, English singer-songwriter and actor 1994 Jake T. Austin, American actor 2005 Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Deaths
311 Diocletian, Roman emperor (b. 244) 649 Birinus, Frankish-West Saxon religious leader, 1st Bishop of Dorchester 1154 Pope Anastasius IV (b. 1073) 1265 Odofredus, Italian jurist 1533 Vasili III of Russia (b. 1479) 1552 Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506) 1610 Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general, Lord of Kuwana (b. 1548) 1706 Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mhlingen, German hymn writer (b. 1637) 1765 Lord John Sackville, English cricketer (b. 1713) 1789 Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714) 1815 John Carroll, American priest, 1st Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1735) 1845 Gregor MacGregor, Scottish adventurer, self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais (b. 1786) 1882 Archibald Tait, English priest, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811) 1888 Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816) 1890 Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851) 1892 Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820) 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author and poet (b. 1850) 1902 Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833) 1904 David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869) 1910 Mary Baker Eddy, American author and religious leader, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821) 1912 Prudente de Morais, Brazilian politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841) 1917 Harold Garnett, English cricketer (b. 1879) 1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841) 1928 Ezra Meeker, American businessman (b. 1830) 1928 Johan Olin, Finnish wrestler (b. 1883) 1934 Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849) 1935 Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1868) 1939 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (b. 1848) 1941 Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883) 1949 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress (b. 1876)

1952 Rudolf Margolius, Czech politician (b. 1913) 1955 Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894) 1956 Alexander Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891) 1956 Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian-Bengali author (b. 1908) 1967 Harry Wismer, American broadcaster (b. 1913) 1969 Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902) 1972 William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (b. 1872) 1973 Emile Christian, American trombone player and composer (b. 1895) 1973 Bea Miles, Australian writer (b. 1902) 1979 Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905) 1980 Oswald Mosley, English politician, founded the British Union of Fascists (b. 1896) 1981 Walter Knott, American farmer and amusement park owner, founded Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889) 1984 Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (b. 1919) 1989 Fernando Martin Espina, Spanish basketball player (b. 1962) 1989 Connie B. Gay American businessman, founded the Country Music Association (b. 1914) 1993 Lewis Thomas, American physician (b. 1913) 1994 Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (b. 1933) 1994 Elizabeth Glaser, American activist (b. 1947) 1995 Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909) 1995 Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946) 1996 Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919) 1998 Pierre Htu, Canadian conductor and pianist (b. 1936) 1999 Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942) 1999 Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942) 1999 Jarl Wahlstrm, Finnish missionary, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918) 2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917) 2000 Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (b. 1922) 2002 Adrienne Adams, American children's book illustrator (b. 1906) 2002 Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970) 2003 David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941) 2004 Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911) 2005 Frederick Ashworth, American navy officer, weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar (b. 1912) 2005 Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928) 2006 Logan Whitehurst, American drummer (The Velvet Teen) (b. 1977) 2007 James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948) 2008 Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist (b. 1923) 2009 Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress (b. 1959) 2009 Richard Todd, Irish-English soldier and actor (b. 1919) 2010 Abdumalik Bahori, Soviet poet and author (b. 1927) 2011 Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923) 2012 Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938) 2012 Leo Rajendram Antony, Sri Lankan bishop (b. 1927) 2012 Tommy Berggren, Swedish footballer (b. 1950) 2012 Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984) 2012 Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator and director (b. 1917) 2012 M. Mahroof, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1950) 2012 Geoffrey Shakerley, English photographer (b. 1932) 2012 Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (b. 1966)

Holidays and observances

Advocate's Day (India) Christian Feast Day: Birinus Francis Xavier (Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism) United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities (International) International Day of the Basque Language (Basque Country and Diaspora)

External links
BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/3) The New York Times: On This Day (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/December-3) On This Day in Canada (http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Dec&day=03) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=December_3&oldid=584326701" Categories: Days of the year December This page was last modified on 3 December 2013 at 06:29. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.