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The 3rd o December is the 337t day o the year (338t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 28 days bidin.
Events
- 1804 - Thomas Jefferson is electit Preses o the Unitit States.
- 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st state o the Unitit States.
- 1904 - Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's muin Himalia.
- 1910 - Modren neon lichtin is demonstratit for the first time, bi Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
- 1912 - Bulgarie, Greece, Serbie an Montenegro sign an airmistice.
- 1919 - The Quebec Brig opens tae traffic.
- 1959 - The current Banner o Singapore is adoptit.
- 1967 - Christiaan Barnard performs the first hairt transplant in Cape Toun, Sooth Africae.
- 1971 - Full-scale war erupts atween Indie an Pakistan.
- 1973 - The Pioneer 10 probe sends images o Jupiter.
- 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini becomes Supreme Leader o Iran.
- 1984 - A chemical leak in Bhopal, Indie, kills 8,000 fowk.
- 1989 - George H. W. Bush an Mikhail Gorbachev meet for talks in Maltae.
- 2007 - Kevin Rudd becomes the 26t Prime Meenister o Australie.
- 2007 - Climate chynge talks stairt on Bali.
- 2009 - A suicide bombin in Mogadishu, Somalie, kills 25 fowk.
- 2012 - Typhoon Bopha strikes the Philippines.
- 2018 - An internaitional climate chynge summit stairts in Katowice, Poland.
Births
- 1368 - Charles VI o Fraunce (d. 1422)
- 1447 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1512)
- 1797 - Andrew Smith, Scots zoologist (d. 1872)
- 1857 - Joseph Conrad, Pols-Breetish writer (d. 1924)
- 1880 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
- 1884 - Rajendra Prasad, 1st Preses o Indie (d. 1963)
- 1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Swadish pheesicist (d. 1978)
- 1895 - Anna Freud, Austrick-Breetish psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
- 1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austrick-German biochemist (d. 1967)
- 1927 - Andy Williams, American sangster (d. 2012)
- 1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
- 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, Inglis muisicker
- 1956 - Ewa Kopacz, Pols politeecian
- 1960 - Daryl Hannah, American actress
- 1960 - Julianne Moore, American actress
- 1964 - Tosh McKinlay, Scots fitbawer
- 1968 - Brendan Fraser, American-Canadian actor
- 1970 - Christian Karembeu, French fitbawer
- 1973 - Derek Stillie, Scots fitbawer
- 1981 - Martin Canning, Scots fitbawer
- 1981 - David Villa, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1982 - Michael Essien, Ghanaian fitbawer
- 1985 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress
- 1985 - László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
Daiths
Halidays
- Internaitional Day for fowk wi Disabilities
- Doctors' Day (Cuba)
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