December 3 in History

Historical Events on December 3

1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.

1901 In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt asks Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

1964 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.

1979 In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.

1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.

1989 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.

1994 The PlayStation was released in Japan

1999 NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

2009 A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.

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Famous Birthdays on December 3

1857 Joseph Conrad

1937 Bobby Allison

1960 Julianne Moore

1981 David Villa

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Famous Deaths on December 3

311 Diocletian

1894 Robert Louis Stevenson

1910 Mary Baker Eddy

2015 Scott Weiland

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