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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 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 20, 2020 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 446,376 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.
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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 71 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 2,904 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 3 Historical Events
- 1834 –The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
- 1910 –Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
- 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).
- 1970 –October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ’s Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
- 1982 –A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
Who were born on December 3?
- 1949 –John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (d. 1997)
- 1951 –Mike Bantom, American basketball player
- 1968 –Montell Jordan, American singer and record producer
- 1970 –Christian Karembeu, French footballer
- 1981 –Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
Who died on December 3?
- 1154 –Pope Anastasius IV
- 1610 –Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
- 1815 –John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
- 1939 –Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848)
- 2010 –Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik poet and fiction writer (b.1927)
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