December 3rd

The December 3rd is the 337e Jour of the Année (338e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 28 days before the end of the year.

Events

• 1468 : In Florence, Laurent Splendid the, with his/her brother Giuliano, succeeds his/her father, Pierre Goutteux.
• 1791 : Louis XVI addresses a secret letter to the king of Prussia requiring its assistance of him.
• 1800 : By beating the Austrians with Hohenlinden on December 3rd, Moreau opens the road of Vienna. To save its capital, the Austria sign the armistice of Steyr the 25 and grants a separate peace.
• 1808 : Madrid goes to the army Napoleon
• 1810:
• the the United Kingdom takes with the French the Mauritius
• the English seize the Guadeloupe after having occupied in 1809, the French Guiana and the Martinique.
• 1818 : the Illinois becomes the 25e State of the United States.
• 1829 : Andrew Jackson is elected by the Congress by 178 votes against 83 with its rival John Quincy Adams.
• 1873 : The largest ship of wood ever built, the Richelieu, is launched with Toulon
• 1887: Sadi Carnot is elected president of the French Republic.
• 1896 : With Paris, posthumous creation of Lorenzaccio , Alfred de Musset.
• 1910 : To the Motor Show, to Paris, the inventor Georges Claude presents his lamp to neon.
• 1912 : Signature of an armistice enters the Turkey, the Bulgaria, the Serbia and the Montenegro.
• 1914 : The Belgium is placed under the military administration German.
• 1928 : Catastrophe with Rio de Janeiro: a Hydravion in which had took seat the intellectual elite of the Brésil to greet on its arrival with the native land the “father of aviation”, Santos-Dumont, damages in the ocean near the steamer “Cape Arcona”.
• 1943 : The ship Kianga change close to Shanghai, some 3.800 refugees perish.
• 1944 :
• the American forces cross the river the Saar.
• Beginning of civil war in Greece, between the government in place, supported by London, and a nationalist movement.
• 1951 : Julien Gracq refuses the Prix Goncourt.
• 1952 :
• the General meeting of the United Nations adopts an Indian proposal for an armistice Korea N.
• the Procès of Prague are completed by the hanging of ten of the fourteen defendants and the dispersion of their ashes. Their leader is Rudolf Slánský, ex-secretary general of the Czechoslovakian Communist party, which was the wrong to be opposed to Klement Gottwald. The defendants had to acknowledge whimsical crimes and the indicters were not deprived to exploit the Antisémitisme in their opposition (eleven of the fourteen defendants are Jewish).
• 1958 : Nationalization of the interests Dutch in Indonesia.
• 1961 : American military detachments give an opinion along the line of demarcation between West Berlin and East Berlin, whereas the Easts Germany undertake to reinforce the " wall ".
• 1962 : Thick " Smog " with London: several tens of people succumb to an intoxication by a fog of smoke containing of the sulfur dioxides before time does not rise, four days later.
• 1967 : First Clerc's Office of a human Heart, by the surgeon Christiaan Barnard, in South Africa.
• 1971 : The conflict in connection with the Cashmere envenime: the State of emergency is issued in India following an attack of planes Pakistani in the North-West of the country.
• 1973 : First flight around Jupiter by the probe Pioneer 10.
• 1976 : Attempted murder against Bob Marley with Kingston.
• 1983 : Arrival with Paris of the walk of the " Beur s" against the Racism (started with Marseilles the October 15th).
• 1984 : In the night from December 2nd to 3rd, an escape of Isocyanate of methyl to the factory of pesticides Union Carbide with Bhopal, India, causes more 2  000 died and more 150  000 wounded ( to see Catastrophe of Bhopal ).
• 1985 : The Vieux Quebec is registered on the list of the world heritage of UNESCO, a first in North America.
• 1989 : Resignation of the Politburo and the central committee of the East-German Communist party (SED).
• 1990 : The Lebanese Armée takes the control of the sectors Christian and Moslem of the capital, thus reconstituting Large the Beirut after the complete withdrawal of the militia.
• 1992 : Resolution 794 of UNO.
• 1995 : Bill Clinton sign the starting order of the first American soldiers for the Bosnia-Herzégovine, within the framework of a multinational force of peace under command of the NATO which will count 60.000 men on the whole.
• 1996 :
• a Attentat (a gas bottle of 13 kilos) at the station the RER Port-Royal makes four dead.
• the scientists of NASA announce the probable existence of ice, in a crater located at the south pole of the the Moon.
• 1997 :
• the representatives of one hundred fifty four countries sign with Ottawa the Traité prohibition of the antipersonnelles mines (not the the United States, the China and the Russia); it will come into effect on March 1st 1999.
• After the Filipino , the Thailand, the Indonesia and the South Korea obtains the IMF a loan of fifty-five billion dollars.
• 1999 : Died of John " Scatman John " Larkin, of the continuations of a lung cancer.
• 2001 : The American giant of energy Enron goes bankrupt.
• 2002 : The great dream of Shanghai, the “ Pearl of the East ”, became reality, since the Chinese metropolis has been indicated to organize the World Fair 2010 , which will thus be held, for the first time for 151 years, in a developing country.
• 2003 : The fifth volume of Harry Potter leaves in French.
• 2004 : The Ukrainian Supreme court invalid the second turn of the presidential election of the November 21st and orders the behavior from here the December 26th of a new second turn.
• 2005 :
• Of violent bad weather falls down on the south-east of the France, mainly in the Var and the the Alpes-Maritimes where a cyclist is reported missing.
• Alexandra Rosenfeld, 19 years, Miss Languedoc, is crowned with Cannes Miss France 2006.
• 2006 : Greenland: presidential elections and legislative

Births

• 1368 : Charles VI, king of France of 1380 with 1422 († October 21st 1422).

• 1560 : Jean Gruter, Flemish philosopher († September 1627).
• 1596 : Nicolo Matted, Italian factor of violins († April 12th 1684).
• 1638 : Jean Donneau de Visé, writer and publicity agent French. († 1710)
• 1684: Ludvig Holberg, writer Danish of Norwegian origin († June 28th 1754)
• 1755: Gilbert Stuart, painter states-unien († July 9th 1828).
• 1776 : Johann Spurzheim, neuroscientific German († 1832).
• 1797 : Andrew Smith, Doctor - Military and British zoologist († August 11th 1872).
• 1826 : George McClellan, military states-unien of the American Civil War († October 29th 1885).
• 1838 : Cleveland Abbot, meteorologist states-unien († December 29th 1916).
• 1840 : Jules Claretie, man of letters, member of the French Academy and general administrator of the Comédie-Française († December 23rd 1913).
• 1842 : Ellen Swallow Richards, scientific states-unienne († March 30th 1911).
• 1857 : Joseph Conrad, British writer of Polish origin († August 3rd 1924).
• 1883 : Anton Webern, Austrian type-setter († September 15th 1945).
• 1884 : Rajendra Prasad, first president of the India († February 28th 1963).
• 1886 : Basket Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize of physics († September 26th 1978).
• 1895 : Anna Freud, British psychoanalyst of Austrian origin († October 9th 1982).
• 1899 : Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan († August 13rd 1965).
• 1900 :
• Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide († June 14th 2004).
• Richard Kuhn, Austrian biochemist and Nobel Prize of chemistry († 1967).
• 1906 : Marc-Armand Lallier, religious French, bishop of Nancy (1949 - 1956), archbishop of Marseilles (1956 - 1966) and archbishop of Besancon (1966 - 1980). († January 11th 1988).
• 1911 : Nino Rota, Italian type-setter († April 10th 1979).
• 1921 : Phyllis Curtin, soprano states-unienne
• 1922: Sven Nykvist, Swedish realizer
• 1925: Kim Dae-jung, South Korean president, Nobel Prize of peace
• 1930: Jean-Luc Godard, French realistor
• 1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize of chemistry
• 1934: Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1942: Edmond Herve, French political personality
• 1946: Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
• 1948 :
• Ozzy Osbourne, British
• Diane Kurys, director, producing singer , actress and French scenario writer.
• 1949 : John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete († June 20th 1997).
• 1953 : Robert Guédiguian, actor and realizer French.
• 1954 : Ugo Riccarelli, writer and poet Italy N.
• 1960 :
• Steven Swanson, American astronaut
• Julianne Moore, actress states-unienne
• 1961: Daryl Hannah, actress states-unienne
• 1965: Katarina Witt, German skater .
• 1968 : Brendan Fraser, actor states-unien
• 1970: Christian Karembeu, French footballer.
• 1973 : Holly Marie Combs, actress states-unienne
• 1974: Marie Drucker, journalist and French TV host.
• 1981 : David Villa, Spanish footballer

Death

• 937 : Siegfried, Count and Margrave of Mersebourg.

• 1048 : Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (° 973)
• 1154: Anastase IV, pope
• 1266: Henri III the White, duke of Wrocław
• 1533: Vassili III, Large Prince de Moscou (° March 25th 1479)
• 1552: François Xavier, missionary Spanish Jesuit , in the island of Sancian to broad of Canton, in China. It wished évangéliser China.
• 1789 : Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (° August 14th 1714)
• 1805: Jean Marie Melon Roger Valhubert, general French (° October 22nd 1764)
• 1815: John Carroll, first catholic archbishop of the United States (° January 8th 1735)
• 1882: Archibald Campbell TAIT, archbishop of Canterbury (° December 21st 1811)
• 1888: Carl Zeiss, manufacturing German optical glasses (° September 11th 1816)
• 1892: Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (° December 5th 1820)
• 1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer , author of the Island with the treasure (° November 13rd 1850)
• 1902: Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (° January 1st 1833)
• 1912: Careful Jose de Morais E Barros, president of Brazil (° October 4th 1841)
• 1919: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, impressionist painter French (° February 25th 1841)
• 1941: Christian Sinding, Norwegian type-setter (° January 11th 1856)
• 1956: Alexandre Rodtchenko, draftsman then Russian photographer (° November 23rd 1891)
• 1949: Maria Ouspenskaya, actress states-unienne of Russian origin (° July 29th 1876)
• 1972: Bill Johnson, musician states-unien (° August 10th 1872)
• 1973 :
• Emile Christian, musician states-unien (° April 20th 1895)
• Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, president of the Mexico, between 1952 and 1958 (° December 30th 1890)
• 1979: Dhyan Chand, Indian player of Field hockey, Olympic gold medal (° August 29th 1905)
• 1980: Oswald Mosley, British political personality (° November 16th 1896)
• 1996: Georges Duby, French historian specialist in the the Middle Ages (° October 7th 1919)
• 1999 :
• Madeline Kahn, actress and actress states-unienne (° September 29th 1942)
• Scatman John, American singer. (° March 13rd 1942)
• Edmond Safra, billionaire Lebanon board, founder of the Republic National Bank off New York
• 2000: Gwendolyn Brooks, poet states-unien (° June 7th 1917)
• 2002: Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (° May 20th 1970)
• 2003: David Hemmings, British actor (° November 18th 1941)
• 2004: Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (° October 26th 1911)
• 2005: Wally Parr, 84 years, English veteran, who, the June 6th 1944, had been one of the first combatants to pose the foot on the French soil by taking the Pegasus bridge with Bénouville (Apple-brandy). Hero of Pegasus Bridge. (° 1922).
• 2007 : Dante Isella, 85 years, Philologist and historian of the literature Italy N. (° November 11th 1922).

Celebrations

• international Day of the handicapped people.

Catholic saints of the day

• François Xavier, (16th century)

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Angélis de Chio, néo-martyr († 1813)

See too

• December 3rd in sport
• December 3rd in the railroads

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