History Events on December 03
![Moons of Jupiter](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2Ffilter0yOstjJdJbAXvPqJeLj3.jpg?generation=1608954744020782&alt=media)
The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
#Moons_of_Jupiter
![James Soong](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2Ffilter16v0F1R0ks1l8Wfzaenw.jpg?generation=1608954744359909&alt=media)
Taiwan held the first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only direct elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directed Mayor of Kaohsiung.
#James_Soong
![Quebec Bridge](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2Ffilter23JVF4e5JJjSaBu7w5V5.jpg?generation=1608954744740659&alt=media)
After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
#Quebec_Bridge
![Battle of Hohenlinden](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2Ffilter3LJDneq2riVqyTHQ4lnj.jpg?generation=1608954745120685&alt=media)
War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden: French General Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war.
#Battle_of_Hohenlinden
![Cold War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterBuLyRDIPc3Wt8tIFKzcM.png?generation=1608954745867394&alt=media)
Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. 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.
#Cold_War
![Flag of Singapore](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterCGmqc3OcgEnUfYMPeRLf.png?generation=1608954746320900&alt=media)
The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
#Flag_of_Singapore
![Cincinnati](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterDF3N6uWfA8lMiXm0M8PF.jpg?generation=1608954746705972&alt=media)
In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
#Cincinnati
![2009 Hotel Shamo bombing](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterJK3AWO4kt1gpur7dDvy7.png?generation=1608954747461388&alt=media)
A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
#2009_Hotel_Shamo_bombing
![Typhoon Bopha](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterJUz5Kk9OWgUVAsOV10YV.jpg?generation=1608954747795285&alt=media)
At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
#Typhoon_Bopha
![War of the Second Coalition](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterKfANMqxJ2YHm392NdZay.jpg?generation=1608954748220213&alt=media)
War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
#War_of_the_Second_Coalition
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 of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
#Free_Speech_Movement
![Illinois](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterMADMpw469SaKCYXNRyGK.png?generation=1608954749346087&alt=media)
Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
#Illinois
![Bob Marley](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterN9oj9uyoHeqXOD9HcbLJ.jpg?generation=1608954749696860&alt=media)
An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.
#Bob_Marley
Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close 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.
#Chehalis_River_(Washington)
![Ottawa](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterTh9mVeRUrTPvZsgTMvgv.jpg?generation=1608954750425128&alt=media)
In Ottawa, Ontario, 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.
#Ottawa
![Ruhollah Khomeini](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterVKUluLyw1sTvwS0Q59qI.jpg?generation=1608954750788997&alt=media)
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
#Ruhollah_Khomeini
![NASA](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterVrASL8jMYU6sFZSMyeO3.png?generation=1608954752015239&alt=media)
NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
#NASA
![1800 United States presidential election](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterWlpLjqNkb5kzsXNi4tU0.jpg?generation=1608954752363061&alt=media)
1800 United States presidential election The Electoral College casts votes for President and Vice President that resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
#1800_United_States_presidential_election
![Oil tanker](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterZXyn3zys5nEE84rDeLxc.jpg?generation=1608954752730797&alt=media)
The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
#Oil_tanker
![JAXA](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterZj2RacI0sVmilsfdso0I.png?generation=1608954753528730&alt=media)
The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
#JAXA
![Neon lighting](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterbV5fa7TzVfZE2m2J0pcO.jpg?generation=1608954753946742&alt=media)
Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
#Neon_lighting
![Zollverein](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfiltercV2Qm2cdh18dvMbSpfof.png?generation=1608954754686347&alt=media)
The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
#Zollverein
![Pioneer program](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterfXyLLNU0YzwqCTwdA4FW.png?generation=1608954755120282&alt=media)
Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
#Pioneer_program
![Indo-Pakistani War of 1971](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterfzKxV1xgsN9oSKeW8t9I.jpg?generation=1608954755521916&alt=media)
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
#Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971
![Greek Civil War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2Ffilterhjnv9ZmzcaarnbwnXC8G.jpg?generation=1608954755917566&alt=media)
Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
#Greek_Civil_War
![Bhopal disaster](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterhzgzpBBWMLilIHAkLMvP.jpg?generation=1608954756290033&alt=media)
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.
#Bhopal_disaster
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).
#Groote_Schuur_Hospital
![Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilteroL9mq3t9sPvTHCVUlPm5.jpg?generation=1608954757059479&alt=media)
Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.
#Cameroon_Airlines_Flight_3701
![Times Beach, Missouri](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2Ffilterp3hPKm1k6OcEWEw8N5OE.png?generation=1608954757846376&alt=media)
A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
#Times_Beach,_Missouri
![Bulgaria](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterwBcn8N8r63cdUROYcpit.png?generation=1608954758292005&alt=media)
Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
#Bulgaria
![PlayStation (console)](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterwJQnMCuiJtvUAJHIRcvW.jpg?generation=1608954758627353&alt=media)
The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan
#PlayStation_(console)
![Turkish-Armenian War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FDecember_03%2FfilterxujuQp9ibae746OW7WYK.png?generation=1608954759378929&alt=media)
Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
#Turkish-Armenian_War