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December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1775 – The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
• 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
• 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
• 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
• 1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
• 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
• 1917 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
• 1929 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
• 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
• 1964 – Berkeley 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 at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
• 1967 – 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).
• 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
• 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
• 1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
• 1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
• 1979 – In Cincinnati, Ohio, eleven fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert .
• 1979 – Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
• 1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
• 1984 – 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.
• 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end.
• 1990 – At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482.
• 1992 – UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
• 1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
• 1997 – In Ottawa, 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.
• 1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
• 1999 – Six Firefighters killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester Mass.
• 2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
• 2007 – Winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing 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.

Births

• 1368 – King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
• 1560 – Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627)
• 1596 – Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
• 1684 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
• 1729 – Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1783)
• 1755 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (d. 1828)
• 1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
• 1800 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849)
• 1826 – George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)
• 1838 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
• 1838 – Octavia Hill, British housing and open-space activist (d. 1912)
• 1842 – Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919)
• 1842 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899)
• 1842 – Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911)
• 1857 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
• 1875 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955)
• 1880 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990)
• 1888 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (d. 1959)
• 1894 – Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
• 1899 – Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
• 1900 – Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
• 1900 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
• 1908 – Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
• 1922 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Moyra Fraser, British actress
• 1924 – Roberto Mières, Argentine racing driver
• 1924 – John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
• 1925 – Ferlin Husky, American singer
• 1925 – Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
• 1927 – Andy Williams, American singer
• 1930 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
• 1931 – Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
• 1931 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer
• 1932 – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
• 1933 – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1934 – Nicolas Coster, American actor
• 1934 – Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1937 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver
• 1937 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
• 1938 – Jean-Claude Malépart, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
• 1940 – Jeffrey R. Holland, American religious leader
• 1942 – Alice Schwarzer, German journalist
• 1945 – Paul Nicholas English actor producer
• 1946 – Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
• 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, English singer
• 1949 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (d. 1997)
• 1949 – Heather Menzies, American actress
• 1949 – Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship)
• 1950 – Alberto Juantorena, Won gold in both the 400 and 800 meters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• 1951 – Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Riki Chōshū, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1951 – Rick Mears, American race car driver
• 1951 – John and Greg Rice, American twin actors
• 1951 – Nicky Stevens, British singer (Brotherhood of Man)
• 1952 – Benny Hinn, American televangelist
• 1952 – Mel Smith, English comedian
• 1953 – Franz Klammer, Austrian skier
• 1954 – Grace Andreacchi, American author
• 1955 – Steven Culp, American actor
• 1955 – Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist
• 1957 – Valerie Quennessen, French actress (d. 1989)
• 1959 – Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter
• 1960 – Daryl Hannah, American actress
• 1960 – Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Julianne Moore, American actress
• 1960 – Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player
• 1961 – Adal Ramones, Mexican television host
• 1963 – Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi)
• 1963 – Terri Schiavo, American right to die figure (d. 2005)
• 1965 – Steve Harris, American actor
• 1965 – Andrew Stanton, American animator
• 1965 – Katarina Witt, German figure skater
• 1966 – Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer
• 1968 – Brendan Fraser, American actor
• 1968 – Montell Jordan, American singer and record producer
• 1969 – Bill Steer, British guitarist
• 1970 – Paul Byrd, American baseball player
• 1970 – Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player
• 1970 – Christian Karembeu, French footballer
• 1971 – Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
• 1971 – Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress
• 1971 – Vernon White, American mixed martial artist
• 1971 – Ola Rapace, Swedish actor
• 1972 – Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder
• 1973 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress
• 1973 – MC Frontalot, Damian Hess, American rapper
• 1973 – Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler
• 1973 – Sammy Leung, Hong Kong disc jockey
• 1974 – Jason Morris, Canadian pop singer
• 1975 – Mickey Avalon, American rapper
• 1975 – Csaba Czébely, Hungarian drummer (Pokolgép)
• 1975 – Malinda Williams, American actress
• 1976 – Gary Glover, American baseball player
• 1976 – Todd Smith, American Vocalist, Songwriter and Guitarist
• 1976 – Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1976 – Mark Boucher, South African cricketer
• 1976 – Cornelius Griffin, American football player
• 1976 – Silvia Fontana, Italian figure skater
• 1977 – Chad Durbin, American baseball player
• 1977 – Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper
• 1977 – Troy Evans, American football player
• 1978 – Trina, American rapper
• 1978 – Daniel Alexandersson, Swedish footballer
• 1978 – Jiří Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1979 – Daniel Bedingfield, English singer
• 1979 – Tiffany Haddish, American dancer, comedian & actress
• 1979 – Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Rock Cartwright, American football player
• 1980 – Anna Chlumsky, American actress
• 1980 – Jenna Dewan, American actress
• 1980 – Jim Sorgi, American football player
• 1980 – Laryea Kingston, Ghanaian football player
• 1981 – Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – David Villa, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
• 1982 – Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 – Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
• 1982 – Jack Swagger, American profesional wrestler
• 1982 – Manny Corpas, Panamanian baseball player
• 1983 – Sherri DuPree, American vocalist
• 1984 – Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1985 – László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
• 1985 – Mike Randolph, American footballer
• 1985 – Amanda Seyfried, American actress
• 1985 – Robert Swift, American basketball player
• 1985 – Marcus Williams, American basketball player
• 1987 – Michael Angarano, American actor
• 1987 – Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast
• 1992 – Joseph McManners, English actor
• 1994 – Jake T. Austin, American actor
• 2005 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Deaths

• 1154 – Pope Anastasius IV
• 1265 – Odofredus, Italian jurist
• 1533 – Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
• 1552 – St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
• 1610 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
• 1706 – Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
• 1765 – Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
• 1789 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• 1815 – John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
• 1845 – Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (b. 1786)
• 1882 – Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
• 1888 – Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
• 1890 – Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 – Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (b. 1850)
• 1902 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
• 1910 – Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821)
• 1912 – Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
• 1928 – Ezra Meeker, American pioneer and businessman (b. 1830)
• 1934 – Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1868)
• 1939 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1941 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
• 1949 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress (b. 1876)
• 1955 – Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
• 1967 – Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
• 1973 – Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Oswald Mosley, British Fascist (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
• 1984 – Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (b. 1947)
• 1995 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1996 – Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Pierre Hétu, Quebec conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
• 2003 – David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Teo Peter, Romanian rock musician and bass player for Compact (b. 1954)
• 2005 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)
• 2007 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Robert Zajonc, Polish-American social psychologist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Richard Todd, British actor (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

• International Day of Disabled Persons
• International Day of the Basque language
• Feast day of St. Francis Xavier in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and Anglican communion
• Feast day of Saint Birinus in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints
• Advocate's Day in India, in memory of Rajendra Prasad, first President and an eminent lawyer

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. ~ Mark Twain

• selected by Basil Fawlty

2004

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ Emma Goldman

• selected by Kalki

2005

All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. ~ Joseph Conrad in The Secret Agent (born 3 December 1857)

• proposed by UDScott

2006

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality. ~ Joseph Conrad

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (date of death)

• 2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (date of death)

• 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
• 0, though very good, this one was already used in July 2004 ~ Kalki 00:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. ~ Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930)

• 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. ~ Jean-Luc Godard.

• 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~ Jean-Luc Godard.

• 4. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 00:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. ~ Joseph Conrad

• 3 Kalki 21:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4/
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. ~ Joseph Conrad

• 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 21:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Antiquary 19:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

• 2 Zarbon 04:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on December 3.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2004
  • American Chopper for the Xbox in North America
  • Final Fantasy I & II Advance for the GBA in Europe

• 2001
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee for the GameCube in North America

• 1998
  • Thief: The Dark Project for the PC

• 1996
  • Batman Forever: The Arcade Game for the PlayStation in North America

Events

• 1994
  • PlayStation console is released in Japan

From Familypedia

December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1800 - Battle of Hohenlinden, which was an Austrian Defeat
• 1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.
• 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
• 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
• 1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
• 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
• 1912 - First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
• 1917 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
• 1929 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
• 1936 - New York City radio station WQXR is officially founded.
• 1937 - The Dandy, the UK's longest-running comic, is first published.
• 1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists.
• 1964 - Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
• 1967 - 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).
• 1967 - The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City to Chicago (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).
• 1970 - October Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
• 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades East Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
• 1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
• 1978 - The Southern Crescent passenger train derails at Shipman, Virginia, killing six, injuring 60.
• 1979 - In Cincinnati, eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before a Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum.
• 1979 - Shadow Traffic begins broadcasts in the New York City metropolitan area.
• 1982 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
• 1984 - 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.
• 1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over).
• 1990 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members aboard flight 1482.
• 1992 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
• 1992 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
• 1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a 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.
• 1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
• 2005 - XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.

Births

• 1368 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
• 1560 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627)
• 1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
• 1684 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754)
• 1755 - Gilbert Stuart, American painter (d. 1828)
• 1776 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
• 1800 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849)
• 1826 - George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885)
• 1838 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916)
• 1838 - Octavia Hill, British housing and open-space activist (d. 1912)
• 1842 - Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911)
• 1857 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924)
• 1875 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955)
• 1880 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1883 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)
• 1884 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
• 1884 - Walther Stampfli, Member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
• 1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
• 1887 - Naruhiko of Japan (d. 1990)
• 1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982)
• 1899 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
• 1900 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
• 1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
• 1908 - Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989)
• 1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
• 1918 - Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
• 1922 - Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer
• 1924 - Roberto Mières, Argentine racing driver
• 1925 - Ferlin Husky, American singer
• 1925 - Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate
• 1928 - Andy Williams, American singer
• 1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
• 1931 - Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
• 1931 - Jaye P. Morgan, American singer
• 1932 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
• 1933 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1934 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1937 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver
• 1937 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
• 1942 - Alice Schwarzer, German journalist
• 1946 - Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
• 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer
• 1949 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (d. 1997)
• 1949 - Heather Menzies, American actress
• 1949 - Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship)
• 1951 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994)
• 1951 - Riki Chōshū, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1951 - Rick Mears, American race car driver
• 1951 - John and Greg Rice, American twin dwarves and commercial and infomercial actors
• 1952 - Mel Smith, English comedian
• 1953 - Franz Klammer, Austrian skier
• 1955 - Steven Culp, American actor
• 1955 - Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist
• 1959 - Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter
• 1960 - Daryl Hannah, American actress
• 1960 - Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1960 - Julianne Moore, American actress
• 1960 - Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player
• 1963 - Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi)
• 1963 - Terri Schiavo, center of right to die case (d. 2006)
• 1965 - Steve Harris, American actor
• 1965 - Katarina Witt, German figure skater
• 1968 - Brendan Fraser, American actor
• 1969 - Bill Steer, British guitarist
• 1970 - Paul Byrd, American baseball player
• 1970 - Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player
• 1970 - Christian Karembeu, French footballer
• 1971 - Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
• 1971 - Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress
• 1972 - Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder
• 1973 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress
• 1973 - Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler
• 1973 - Sammy Leung, Hong Kong disc jockey
• 1976 - Gary Glover, American baseball player
• 1976 - Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1976 - Mark Boucher, South African cricketer
• 1976 - Cornelius Griffin, American football player
• 1977 - Chad Durbin, American baseball player
• 1977 - Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper
• 1977 - Troy Evans, American football player
• 1978 - Trina, American rapper
• 1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English singer
• 1979 - Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor
• 1979 - Rock Cartwright, American football player
• 1980 - Anna Chlumsky, American actress
• 1980 - Jenna Dewan, American actress
• 1980 - Jim Sorgi, American football player
• 1981 - Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer
• 1981 - David Villa, Spanish footballer
• 1981 - Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
• 1982 - Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 - Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
• 1983 - Sherri DuPree, American vocalist
• 1984 - Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1985 - Amanda Seyfried, American actress
• 1985 - Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player
• 1987 - Michael Angarano, American actor
• 1992 - Joseph McManners, English actor
• 1994 - Jake T. Austin American actor
• 2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Deaths

• 1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
• 1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
• 1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
• 1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
• 1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
• 1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
• 1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
• 1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
• 1815 - John Carroll, first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
• 1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
• 1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
• 1890 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850)
• 1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
• 1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science (b. 1821)
• 1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
• 1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
• 1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
• 1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
• 1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
• 1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
• 1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
• 1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
• 1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
• 1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
• 1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
• 1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
• 1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889)
• 1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
• 1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
• 1994 - Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (b. 1947)
• 1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
• 1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
• 1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
• 1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
• 2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
• 2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
• 2003 - David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
• 2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
• 2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances

• International Day of Disabled Persons
• International Day of the Basque language
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church (per the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints):
  • Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier
  • Saint Birinus
• In the Traditional Catholic Calendar it is the Feast day of:
  • Saint Francis Xavier
• Other commemorations:
  • Abbo of Auxerre
• Celebrated as Advocate's Day in India in the memory of Rajendra Prasad,First President and an eminent lawyer

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada