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, 28,886,400 minutes 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
- 1912 –Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
- 1960 –The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway, and would become associated with the Kennedy administration.
- 1964 –Berkeley 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 at 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 pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
- 1979 –In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
- 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 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
- 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.
- 2009 –A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
Who were born on December 3?
- 1826 –George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)
- 1880 –Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
- 1933 –Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1946 –Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
- 1970 –Lu Parker, American broadcast journalist and former beauty queen
- 1974 –Jason Morris, Canadian pop singer
- 1976 –Todd Smith, American vocalist, songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 –Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper
- 1979 –Rock Cartwright, American football player
- 1980 –Jenna Dewan, American actress
Who died on December 3?
- 1265 –Odofredus, Italian jurist
- 1892 –Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
- 1902 –Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
- 1955 –Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
- 1993 –Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
- 1998 –Pierre Hétu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
- 1999 –Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2000 –Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
- 2003 –David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
- 2007 –James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
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