1984. On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster.
Birthday newspaper
Your Front Page: 3 December 2000
A personalised newspaper front page from the day you were born, printed in the style of your birth year.
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Your personalised birthday front page
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The World Birthday Chronicle
Born on
Sunday 3 December
2000
Keepsake edition · Who Shares My Birthday
The world in 2000
World population6.2 billionApproximate
Average house£84,600Typical UK home
Pint of beer£1.90In a UK pub
Loaf of bread51pLarge white loaf
Average salary£19,900UK full-time, per year
Approximate UK averages, in the money of the day
Year of the
Dragon
Metal Dragon, 5 February 2000 to 23 January 2001
Star sign
Sagittarius
Birthstone
Turquoise
On the radio
UK number one on your birthday
S Club 7 – “Never Had a Dream Come True”
Most weeks at number one in 2000
- 1.Sonique – It Feels So Good (3 wks)
- 2.Westlife – I Have a Dream / Seasons in the Sun (2 wks)
- 3.Bob the Builder – Can We Fix It? (2 wks)
Christmas number one 2000Bob the Builder – Can We Fix It?
Famous births & deaths
on 3 December
- ★ Iru Khechanovi born 2000
- ★ Joseph Conrad born 1857
- ★ Julianne Moore born 1960
- Robert Louis Stevenson died 1894
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir died 1919
- Diocletian died AD 316
In The News
On 3 December 1997
Ottawa Treaty
1997. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine Ban Treaty, aims at eliminating anti-personnel landmines around the…
Also in 2000
Also on 3 December in history
1971. The India–Pakistan war of 1971, also known as the third Indo-Pakistani war, was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.
2024. On 3 December 2024, at 22:27 Korea Standard Time, Yoon Suk Yeol, the then-president of South Korea, attempted a self-coup by declaring martial law during a televised address.
Compiled by Who Shares My Birthday from Wikipedia, Wikidata and UK chart records
How your birthday newspaper is made
Enter your date of birth and we will print a one-off newspaper front page for the day you were born. The headline is a real historical event from our archive, chosen from your exact birth date where we have one, then from the same week, then from the same date in an earlier year. The page also shows famous people born and died on your birthday, your star sign, birthstone and Chinese zodiac year, the UK number one single, the biggest hits and Christmas number one of your birth year, the world population and the cost of living in Britain at the time.
- Your page is laid out as a vintage keepsake poster in sepia ink, with boxed panels for the world in your birth year, your Chinese zodiac year, star sign and birthstone, the UK charts, famous births and deaths on your birthday, and the news.
- Headlines and summaries come from our archive of historical events, built from Wikidata and reviewed by our editorial team. Chart facts come from the official UK singles chart record, which began on 14 November 1952.
- Add your town or country of birth to name the masthead, for example The Manchester Birthday Chronicle. Your birthplace is stored only on your device.
- Every front page has its own link, so you can send it to friends and family, and you can download it as a high-resolution image to print or frame.
Questions people ask
Frequently asked questions
- How do I get a newspaper front page from the day I was born?
- Enter your day, month and year of birth above and press the button. Your personalised front page appears instantly, with its own link you can share and a download button for a print-quality image.
- Are the headlines real?
- Yes. Every headline is a real historical event from our archive. If nothing in our archive happened on your exact birth date, we use an event from the same week, or the most recent event on the same date in an earlier year, and the label above the headline says which.
- Why does my front page look different from a friend's?
- Every page is built from your exact birth date, so the news, the people, the charts and the prices all change with the day and year you were born.
- Is the birthday newspaper free?
- Yes. Creating, sharing and downloading your personalised birthday front page costs nothing.
Further reading
- Historical events data from Wikidata
- Portraits via Wikimedia Commons
- UK number one singles from the Official Charts Company
Reviewed by the Who Shares My Birthday editorial team.
Last reviewed: October 2026