What happened this day in history December 3

What are the important events that happened on December 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 3 is the 338th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 20, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 481,440 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontaoctagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 57 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,365 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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December 3 Historical Events

  • 1818
    Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
  • 1854
    Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
  • 1901
    US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”.
  • 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 Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
  • 1971
    Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches 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.
  • 1992
    The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
  • 2005
    XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
  • 2007
    Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing 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.

Who were born on December 3?

  • 1776
    Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
  • 1884
    Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
  • 1911
    Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
  • 1925
    Kim Dae-jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
  • 1931
    Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
  • 1951
    Mike Bantom, American basketball player
  • 1979
    Rock Cartwright, American football player
  • 1979
    Sean Parker, American Internet technology businessman and entrepreneur
  • 1980
    Anna Chlumsky, American actress
  • 1987
    Michael Angarano, American actor

Who died on December 3?

  • 1610
    Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
  • 1765
    Lord John Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
  • 1892
    Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
  • 1902
    Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
  • 1919
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
  • 1941
    Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
  • 1979
    Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
  • 2000
    Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
  • 2003
    David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
  • 2011
    Dev Anand, Indian actor (b. 1923)

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