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December 3rd, 2007 (December 03 2007) | Event | Devastating winter storms caused 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 of damaged are blamed on the floods. | |
December 3rd, 2007 (December 03 2007) | Death | James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (born in 1948) | |
December 3rd, 2006 (December 03 2006) | Death | Logan Whitehurst, American musician (born in 1977) | |
December 3rd, 2005 (December 03 2005) | Event | XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California. | |
December 3rd, 2005 (December 03 2005) | Birth | Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway | |
December 3rd, 2005 (December 03 2005) | Death | Herb Moford, American baseball player (born in 1928) | |
December 3rd, 2004 (December 03 2004) | Death | Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (born in 1911) | |
December 3rd, 2003 (December 03 2003) | Death | David Hemmings, English actor (born in 1941) | |
December 3rd, 2002 (December 03 2002) | Death | Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (born in 1970) | |
December 3rd, 2000 (December 03 2000) | Death | Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (born in 1917) | Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes |
December 3rd, 2000 (December 03 2000) | Death | Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (born in 1922) | |
December 3rd, 1999 (December 03 1999) | Event | NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. | |
December 3rd, 1999 (December 03 1999) | Death | Scatman John, American singer (born in 1942) | |
December 3rd, 1999 (December 03 1999) | Death | Madeline Kahn, American actress (born in 1942) | |
December 3rd, 1999 (December 03 1999) | Death | Jarl Wahlstrom, 12th General of The Salvation Army (born in 1918) | |
December 3rd, 1998 (December 03 1998) | Death | Pierre Hetu, Quebec conductor and pianist (born in 1936) | |
December 3rd, 1997 (December 03 1997) | Event | In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a 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. | |
December 3rd, 1996 (December 03 1996) | Death | Georges Duby, French historian (born in 1919) | |
December 3rd, 1995 (December 03 1995) | Death | Jimmy Jewel, English actor (born in 1909) | |
December 3rd, 1995 (December 03 1995) | Death | Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (born in 1946) | |
December 3rd, 1994 (December 03 1994) | Birth | Jake T. Austin, American actor | |
December 3rd, 1994 (December 03 1994) | Death | Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (born in 1947) | |
December 3rd, 1993 (December 03 1993) | Death | Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (born in 1913) | Lewis Thomas Quotes |
December 3rd, 1992 (December 03 1992) | Event | 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. | |
December 3rd, 1992 (December 03 1992) | Event | The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruna, Spain, and spills much of its cargo. | |
December 3rd, 1992 (December 03 1992) | Birth | Joseph McManners, English actor | |
December 3rd, 1990 (December 03 1990) | Event | At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members aboard flight 1482. | |
December 3rd, 1989 (December 03 1989) | Event | Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over). | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
December 3rd, 1987 (December 03 1987) | Birth | Michael Angarano, American actor | |
December 3rd, 1985 (December 03 1985) | Birth | Amanda Seyfried, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1985 (December 03 1985) | Birth | Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player | |
December 3rd, 1984 (December 03 1984) | Event | 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. | |
December 3rd, 1984 (December 03 1984) | Birth | Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer | |
December 3rd, 1984 (December 03 1984) | Death | Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (born in 1919) | |
December 3rd, 1983 (December 03 1983) | Birth | Sherri DuPree, American vocalist | |
December 3rd, 1982 (December 03 1982) | Event | A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. | |
December 3rd, 1982 (December 03 1982) | Birth | Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer | |
December 3rd, 1982 (December 03 1982) | Birth | Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor | |
December 3rd, 1982 (December 03 1982) | Birth | Manny Corpas, American baseball player | |
December 3rd, 1981 (December 03 1981) | Birth | Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer | |
December 3rd, 1981 (December 03 1981) | Birth | David Villa, Spanish footballer | |
December 3rd, 1981 (December 03 1981) | Birth | Tyjuan Hagler, American football player | |
December 3rd, 1981 (December 03 1981) | Death | Walter Knott, American farmer (born in 1889) | |
December 3rd, 1980 (December 03 1980) | Birth | Anna Chlumsky, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1980 (December 03 1980) | Birth | Jenna Dewan, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1980 (December 03 1980) | Birth | Jim Sorgi, American football player | |
December 3rd, 1980 (December 03 1980) | Death | Oswald Mosley, British politician (born in 1896) | |
December 3rd, 1979 (December 03 1979) | Event | In Cincinnati, Ohio, eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before a Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum. | |
December 3rd, 1979 (December 03 1979) | Event | Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area. | |
December 3rd, 1979 (December 03 1979) | Birth | Daniel Bedingfield, English singer | |
December 3rd, 1979 (December 03 1979) | Birth | Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor | |
December 3rd, 1979 (December 03 1979) | Birth | Rock Cartwright, American football player | |
December 3rd, 1979 (December 03 1979) | Death | Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (born in 1905) | |
December 3rd, 1978 (December 03 1978) | Birth | Trina, American rapper | |
December 3rd, 1977 (December 03 1977) | Birth | Chad Durbin, American baseball player | |
December 3rd, 1977 (December 03 1977) | Birth | Adam Malysz, Polish ski-jumper | |
December 3rd, 1977 (December 03 1977) | Birth | Troy Evans, American football player | Evans Quotes |
December 3rd, 1976 (December 03 1976) | Birth | Gary Glover, American baseball player | |
December 3rd, 1976 (December 03 1976) | Birth | Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer | |
December 3rd, 1976 (December 03 1976) | Birth | Mark Boucher, South African cricketer | |
December 3rd, 1976 (December 03 1976) | Birth | Cornelius Griffin, American football player | |
December 3rd, 1975 (December 03 1975) | Birth | Mickey Avalon, American rapper | |
December 3rd, 1975 (December 03 1975) | Birth | Csaba Czebely, Hungarian drummer (Pokolgep) | |
December 3rd, 1975 (December 03 1975) | Birth | Malinda Williams, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1973 (December 03 1973) | Event | Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. | |
December 3rd, 1973 (December 03 1973) | Birth | Holly Marie Combs, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1973 (December 03 1973) | Birth | Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler | |
December 3rd, 1973 (December 03 1973) | Birth | Sammy Leung, Hong Kong disc jockey | |
December 3rd, 1973 (December 03 1973) | Death | Emile Christian, American musician (born in 1895) | |
December 3rd, 1972 (December 03 1972) | Birth | Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder | |
December 3rd, 1972 (December 03 1972) | Death | Bill Johnson, American musician (born in 1872) | |
December 3rd, 1971 (December 03 1971) | Event | Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades East Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. | |
December 3rd, 1971 (December 03 1971) | Birth | Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer | |
December 3rd, 1971 (December 03 1971) | Birth | Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress | |
December 3rd, 1971 (December 03 1971) | Birth | Vernon White, American mixed martial artist | Martial Quotes |
December 3rd, 1970 (December 03 1970) | Event | October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Liberation du Quebec 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. | |
December 3rd, 1970 (December 03 1970) | Birth | Paul Byrd, American baseball player | |
December 3rd, 1970 (December 03 1970) | Birth | Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player | |
December 3rd, 1970 (December 03 1970) | Birth | Christian Karembeu, French footballer | |
December 3rd, 1969 (December 03 1969) | Birth | Bill Steer, British guitarist | |
December 3rd, 1969 (December 03 1969) | Death | Mathias Wieman, German actor (born in 1902) | |
December 3rd, 1968 (December 03 1968) | Birth | Brendan Fraser, American actor | |
December 3rd, 1968 (December 03 1968) | Birth | Montell Jordan, American singer, songwriter and record producer | |
December 3rd, 1967 (December 03 1967) | Event | 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). | |
December 3rd, 1967 (December 03 1967) | Event | The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902). | |
December 3rd, 1967 (December 03 1967) | Death | Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (born in 1913) | |
December 3rd, 1966 (December 03 1966) | Birth | Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer | |
December 3rd, 1965 (December 03 1965) | Birth | Steve Harris, American actor | |
December 3rd, 1965 (December 03 1965) | Birth | Andrew Stanton, American animator | |
December 3rd, 1965 (December 03 1965) | Birth | Katarina Witt, German figure skater | |
December 3rd, 1964 (December 03 1964) | Event | 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. | |
December 3rd, 1963 (December 03 1963) | Birth | Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi) | |
December 3rd, 1963 (December 03 1963) | Birth | Terri Schiavo, center of right to die case (died in 2005) | |
December 3rd, 1961 (December 03 1961) | Birth | Adal Ramones, Mexican television host | |
December 3rd, 1960 (December 03 1960) | Birth | Daryl Hannah, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1960 (December 03 1960) | Birth | Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player | |
December 3rd, 1960 (December 03 1960) | Birth | Julianne Moore, American actress | Julian Quotes |
December 3rd, 1960 (December 03 1960) | Birth | Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player | |
December 3rd, 1959 (December 03 1959) | Birth | Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter | |
December 3rd, 1955 (December 03 1955) | Birth | Steven Culp, American actor | |
December 3rd, 1955 (December 03 1955) | Birth | Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist | |
December 3rd, 1955 (December 03 1955) | Death | Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (born in 1894) | |
December 3rd, 1954 (December 03 1954) | Birth | Grace Andreacchi, American author | |
December 3rd, 1953 (December 03 1953) | Birth | Franz Klammer, Austrian skier | |
December 3rd, 1952 (December 03 1952) | Birth | Benny Hinn, televangelist | |
December 3rd, 1952 (December 03 1952) | Birth | Mel Smith, English comedian | |
December 3rd, 1951 (December 03 1951) | Birth | Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (died in 1994) | |
December 3rd, 1951 (December 03 1951) | Birth | Riki Choshu, Japanese professional wrestler | |
December 3rd, 1951 (December 03 1951) | Birth | Rick Mears, American race car driver | |
December 3rd, 1951 (December 03 1951) | Birth | John and Greg Rice, American twin dwarves and commercial and infomercial actors | |
December 3rd, 1949 (December 03 1949) | Birth | John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (died in 1997) | |
December 3rd, 1949 (December 03 1949) | Birth | Heather Menzies, American actress | |
December 3rd, 1949 (December 03 1949) | Birth | Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship) | Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
December 3rd, 1949 (December 03 1949) | Death | Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (born in 1876) | |
December 3rd, 1948 (December 03 1948) | Birth | Ozzy Osbourne, English singer | Ozzy Osbourne Quotes |
December 3rd, 1946 (December 03 1946) | Birth | Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist | |
December 3rd, 1945 (December 03 1945) | Birth | Paul Nicholas English actor producer | |
December 3rd, 1944 (December 03 1944) | Event | The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists. | |
December 3rd, 1942 (December 03 1942) | Birth | Alice Schwarzer, German journalist | |
December 3rd, 1941 (December 03 1941) | Death | Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (born in 1883) | |
December 3rd, 1938 (December 03 1938) | Birth | Jean-Claude Malepart, Canadian politician (died in 1989) | |
December 3rd, 1937 (December 03 1937) | Birth | Bobby Allison, American race car driver | |
December 3rd, 1937 (December 03 1937) | Birth | Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist | |
December 3rd, 1934 (December 03 1934) | Birth | Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut | |
December 3rd, 1934 (December 03 1934) | Death | Charles James O Donnell, Irish politician (born in 1849) | |
December 3rd, 1933 (December 03 1933) | Birth | Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate | |
December 3rd, 1932 (December 03 1932) | Birth | Corry Brokken, Dutch singer | |
December 3rd, 1931 (December 03 1931) | Birth | Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author | |
December 3rd, 1931 (December 03 1931) | Birth | Jaye P. Morgan, American singer | |
December 3rd, 1930 (December 03 1930) | Birth | Jean-Luc Godard, French film director | Jean-Luc Godard Quotes |
December 3rd, 1929 (December 03 1929) | Event | Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy. | Herbert Hoover Quotes |
December 3rd, 1927 (December 03 1927) | Birth | Andy Williams, American singer | |
December 3rd, 1925 (December 03 1925) | Birth | Ferlin Husky, American singer | |
December 3rd, 1925 (December 03 1925) | Birth | Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate | |
December 3rd, 1924 (December 03 1924) | Birth | Roberto Mieres, Argentine racing driver | |
December 3rd, 1924 (December 03 1924) | Birth | John Winter, Australian high jumper (died in 2007) | |
December 3rd, 1924 (December 03 1924) | Birth | Francisco Sionil Jose, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature | |
December 3rd, 1922 (December 03 1922) | Birth | Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (died in 2006) | |
December 3rd, 1921 (December 03 1921) | Birth | Phyllis Curtin, American soprano | |
December 3rd, 1919 (December 03 1919) | Death | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (born in 1841) | |
December 3rd, 1918 (December 03 1918) | Birth | Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (died in 2000) | |
December 3rd, 1917 (December 03 1917) | Event | After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. | |
December 3rd, 1912 (December 03 1912) | Event | Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War. | |
December 3rd, 1912 (December 03 1912) | Event | First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place. | |
December 3rd, 1912 (December 03 1912) | Death | Prudente Jose de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (born in 1841) | |
December 3rd, 1911 (December 03 1911) | Birth | Nino Rota, Italian composer (died in 1979) | |
December 3rd, 1910 (December 03 1910) | Death | Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (born in 1821) | |
December 3rd, 1908 (December 03 1908) | Birth | Edward Underdown, English actor (died in 1989) | |
December 3rd, 1904 (December 03 1904) | Event | The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California s Lick Observatory. | |
December 3rd, 1902 (December 03 1902) | Death | Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (born in 1833) | |
December 3rd, 1901 (December 03 1901) | Event | 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". | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
December 3rd, 1900 (December 03 1900) | Birth | Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (died in 2004) | |
December 3rd, 1900 (December 03 1900) | Birth | Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1967) | |
December 3rd, 1899 (December 03 1899) | Birth | Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (died in 1965) | |
December 3rd, 1895 (December 03 1895) | Birth | Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (died in 1982) | |
December 3rd, 1894 (December 03 1894) | Death | Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (born in 1850) | Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
December 3rd, 1892 (December 03 1892) | Death | Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (born in 1820) | |
December 3rd, 1890 (December 03 1890) | Death | Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (born in 1851) | |
December 3rd, 1888 (December 03 1888) | Death | Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (born in 1816) | |
December 3rd, 1887 (December 03 1887) | Birth | Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (died in 1990) | |
December 3rd, 1886 (December 03 1886) | Birth | Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (died in 1978) | |
December 3rd, 1884 (December 03 1884) | Birth | Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (died in 1963) | |
December 3rd, 1884 (December 03 1884) | Birth | Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died in 1965) | |
December 3rd, 1883 (December 03 1883) | Birth | Anton Webern, Austrian composer (died in 1945) | |
December 3rd, 1882 (December 03 1882) | Death | Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1811) | |
December 3rd, 1880 (December 03 1880) | Birth | Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (died in 1945) | |
December 3rd, 1875 (December 03 1875) | Birth | Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (died in 1955) | |
December 3rd, 1857 (December 03 1857) | Birth | Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (died in 1924) | Joseph Conrad Quotes |
December 3rd, 1854 (December 03 1854) | Event | Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. | |
December 3rd, 1845 (December 03 1845) | Death | Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (born in 1786) | |
December 3rd, 1842 (December 03 1842) | Birth | Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (died in 1919) | |
December 3rd, 1842 (December 03 1842) | Birth | Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (died in 1899) | |
December 3rd, 1842 (December 03 1842) | Birth | Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (died in 1911) | |
December 3rd, 1838 (December 03 1838) | Birth | Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (died in 1916) | |
December 3rd, 1838 (December 03 1838) | Birth | Octavia Hill, British housing and open-space activist (died in 1912) | |
December 3rd, 1826 (December 03 1826) | Birth | George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (died in 1885) | |
December 3rd, 1818 (December 03 1818) | Event | Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. | |
December 3rd, 1815 (December 03 1815) | Death | John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (born in 1735) | |
December 3rd, 1805 (December 03 1805) | Event | Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree. | |
December 3rd, 1800 (December 03 1800) | Event | 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
December 3rd, 1800 (December 03 1800) | Birth | France Preseren, Slovenian poet (died in 1849) | |
December 3rd, 1789 (December 03 1789) | Death | Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (born in 1714) | |
December 3rd, 1776 (December 03 1776) | Birth | Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (died in 1832) | |
December 3rd, 1765 (December 03 1765) | Death | Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (born in 1713) | |
December 3rd, 1755 (December 03 1755) | Birth | Gilbert Stuart, American painter (died in 1828) | |
December 3rd, 1729 (December 03 1729) | Birth | Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (died in 1783) | |
December 3rd, 1706 (December 03 1706) | Death | Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (born in 1637) | Julian Quotes |
December 3rd, 1684 (December 03 1684) | Birth | Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (died in 1754) | |
December 3rd, 1610 (December 03 1610) | Death | Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (born in 1548) | |
December 3rd, 1596 (December 03 1596) | Birth | Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (died in 1684) | |
December 3rd, 1560 (December 03 1560) | Birth | Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (died in 1627) | |
December 3rd, 1552 (December 03 1552) | Death | St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (born in 1506) | |
December 3rd, 1533 (December 03 1533) | Death | Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (born in 1479) | |
December 3rd, 1368 (December 03 1368) | Birth | King Charles VI of France (died in 1422) | |
December 3rd, 1265 (December 03 1265) | Death | Odofredus, Italian jurist | |
December 3rd, 1154 (December 03 1154) | Death | Pope Anastasius IV | |