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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