About December 3
December 3, 2024 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.
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Sagittarius is the sun 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.
What Happened On December 3
- 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”.
- 1904 –The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California’s Lick Observatory.
- 1910 –Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
- 1927 –Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
- 1944 –Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
- 1959 –The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
- 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.
- 1973 –Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
- 1979 –In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
- 1982 –A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
- 1999 –Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- 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.
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