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December 3

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Bhopal disaster

41 years ago

Born this day

1857

Joseph Conrad

Died aged 66

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Diocletian

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Famous births30

1368 · 657 yrs

Charles VI of France

Charles VI (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé) and in the 19th century, the Mad (French: le Fol or le Fou), was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422.

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RoyaltyDied aged 53

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1447 · 578 yrs

Bayezid II

Bayezid II (Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد ثانى, romanized: Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Bayezid; 3 December 1447/1448 – 26 May 1512) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512.

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RoyaltyDied aged 64

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1684 · 341 yrs

Ludvig Holberg

Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano–Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque.

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LiteratureDied aged 69

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1800 · 225 yrs

France Prešeren

France Prešeren (pronounced ) (3 December 1800 – 8 February 1849) was a Slovene poet whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Slovene literature. His poems have been translated into many languages.

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LiteratureDied aged 48

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1857 · 168 yrs

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish:; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1880 · 145 yrs

Fedor von Bock

Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock (3 December 1880 – 4 May 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) who served in the German Army during the Second World War.

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1883 · 142 yrs

Anton Webern

Anton Webern (German:; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques.

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1884 · 141 yrs

Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician, lawyer, journalist and scholar who served as the first president of India from 1950 to 1962 for two terms. He joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar.

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1886 · 139 yrs

Manne Siegbahn

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Swedish:; 3 December 1886 – 24 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."

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1895 · 130 yrs

Anna Freud

Anna Freud ( FROYD; Austrian German:; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays.

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1900 · 125 yrs

Richard Kuhn

Richard Johann Kuhn (German pronunciation:; 3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".

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1911 · 114 yrs

Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (Italian:; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

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Famous deaths12

AD 316 · 1709 yrs

Diocletian

Diocletian ( DY-ə-KLEE-shən; Latin: Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus; Ancient Greek: Διοκλητιανός, romanized: Diokletianós; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia.

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RoyaltyDied aged 71

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1533 · 492 yrs

Vasili III of Moscow

Vasili III Ivanovich (Russian: Василий III Иванович; Christian name: Gavriil; monastic name: Varlaam; 25 March 1479 – 3 December 1533) was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1505 until his death in 1533. He was the second son of Ivan III by his second wife Sophia Paleologue.

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RoyaltyDied aged 54

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1888 · 137 yrs

Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss (German:; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Zeiss.

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ScienceDied aged 72

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1894 · 131 yrs

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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LiteratureDied aged 44

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1910 · 115 yrs

Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy (née Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement.

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LiteratureDied aged 89

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1919 · 106 yrs

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French:; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a leading French Impressionist artist.

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ArtDied aged 78

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1935 · 90 yrs

Charles Richet

Charles Robert Richet (French pronunciation:; 25 August 1850 – 4 December 1935) was a French physiologist at the Collège de France and immunology pioneer. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis".

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LiteratureDied aged 85

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1937 · 88 yrs

Attila József

Attila József (11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was one of the most famous Hungarian poets of the 20th century.

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LiteratureWould be 121

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1979 · 46 yrs

Major Dhyan Chand Singh

Major Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player. He is widely regarded as the greatest field hockey player in history.

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SportsWould be 121

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1980 · 45 yrs

Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British far-right politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.

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RoyaltyWould be 129

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1996 · 29 yrs

Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal (born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.

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1999 · 26 yrs

Scatman John

John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), known professionally under the alias Scatman John, was an American musician. A prolific jazz pianist and vocalist for several decades, he rose to prominence in 1994 through his fusion of scat singing and dance music.

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Events5

1971 · 54 yrs

Indo-Pakistani War of 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.

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War

1984 · 41 yrs

Bhopal disaster

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.

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Disaster

1997 · 28 yrs

Ottawa Treaty

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 (APLs) around the…

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Politics

2022 · 3 yrs

2022 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

The knockout stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup was the second and final stage of the competition, following the group stage. Played from 3 to 18 December, the knockout stage ended with the final, held at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar between Argentina and France.

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Sports

2024 · 1 yrs

2024 South Korean martial law crisis

On 3 December 2024, at 22:27 Korea Standard Time (KST), Yoon Suk Yeol, the then-president of South Korea, attempted a self-coup by declaring martial law during a televised address.

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