List of December 3 Historical Events and Facts
915: Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor.
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1818: Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
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1834: The Zollverein begins the first regular census in Germany.
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1898: The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated 16-0, an all-star collection of early football players, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
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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”.
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1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California’s Lick Observatory.
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1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
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1912: Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
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1919: After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
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1925: World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
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1944: Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
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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.
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1971: Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
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1973: Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
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1976: An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley.
- He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
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1979: In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
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1982: A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
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1984: 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 in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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1989: 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 NATO and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
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1990: At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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1999: Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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2005: XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
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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.
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2009: A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
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