About December 3
December 3, 2025 is the 337th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 76 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 3
- 1799 –War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
- 1800 –War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
- 1834 –The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
- 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.
- 1912 –Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
- 1927 –Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
- 1959 –The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
- 1973 –Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
- 1976 –An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
- 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 –A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
- 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.
- 1992 –UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
- 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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