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 337th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 20, 2022 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,670,025,600 seconds 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 ‘trihectatriacontaheptagon’ 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 50 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 3,634 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 3 Historical Events
- 1799 –War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
- 1927 –Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1976 –An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
- 1982 –A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
- 1997 –In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign The Ottawa treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1368 –King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
- 1911 –Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
- 1918 –Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
- 1952 –Mel Smith, English comedian
- 1960 –Daryl Hannah, American actress
- 1960 –Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 –Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler
- 1981 –Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (d. 2010)
- 1981 –Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
- 1985 –Marcus Williams, American basketball player
Who died on December 3?
- 1892 –Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
- 1939 –Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848)
- 1973 –Bea Miles, Australian eccentric and writer (b. 1902)
- 1981 –Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
- 1994 –Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (b. 1933)
- 1995 –Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
- 2002 –Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
- 2004 –Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
- 2007 –James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
- 2011 –Dev Anand, Indian actor (b. 1923)
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