Editing December 3 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[915]] &ndash; [[Pope John X]] crowns [[Berengar I of Italy]] as [[Holy Roman Emperor]] (probable date).<ref>{{cite book |author=Horace Kinder Mann |title=The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5EOAQAAIAAJ |year=1910 |volume=IV |page=159|publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner }}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: {{USS|Alfred|1774|6}} becomes the first vessel to fly the [[Continental Union Flag]] (precursor to the "[[Flag of the United States|Stars and Stripes]]"); the flag is hoisted by [[John Paul Jones]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Hearst Magazines |title=Popular Mechanics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA590 |date=October 1926 |publisher=Hearst Magazines |pages=590}}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[War of the Second Coalition]]: [[Battle of Wiesloch (1799)|Battle of Wiesloch]]: [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]] Lieutenant Field Marshal [[Anton Sztáray]] defeats the [[First French Empire|French]] at [[Wiesloch]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Ramsay Weston Phipps |title=The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon I ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-59bAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA176 |year=1926 |publisher=Oxford University Press, H. Milford |pages=176}}</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; War of the Second Coalition: [[Battle of Hohenlinden]]: French General [[Jean Victor Marie Moreau]] decisively defeats the [[Archduke John of Austria]] near [[Munich]]. Coupled with [[First Consul]] [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s earlier victory at [[Battle of Marengo|Marengo]], this will force the Austrians to sign [[Treaty of Lunéville|an armistice]] and end the war.<ref>{{cite book |author=Alexander Charles Ewald |title=The Last Century of Universal History: A Reference Book, Containing an Annotated Table of Chronology.... From 1767 to 1867 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tikIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 |year=1868 |publisher=F. Warne & Company |pages=35}}</ref>
*  1800   &ndash; [[1800 United States presidential election|United States presidential election]]: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that result in a tie between [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Aaron Burr]].
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Illinois]] becomes the 21st [[U.S. state]].
*[[1834]] &ndash; The [[Zollverein]] (German Customs Union) begins the first regular [[census in Germany]].
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Eureka Stockade]]: More than 20 gold miners at [[Ballarat, Victoria]], are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
*[[1859]] &ndash; Nigeria's first newspaper, missionary [[Henry Townsend (missionary)|Henry Townsend's]] ''Iwe Irohin'', was published.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.africatodayyesterday.org/days/03-dec | title=Today in African history - 03 December }}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; The first issue of [[Tampere]]an daily newspaper ''[[Aamulehti]]'' ("Morning Paper") is published.<ref>[https://memim.com/aamulehti.html ''Aamulehti''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130032702/https://memim.com/aamulehti.html |date=2021-11-30 }} – Memim.com</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; The [[Duquesne Country and Athletic Club]] defeats [[1898 Western Pennsylvania All-Star football team|an all-star collection of early football players]] 16–0, in what is considered to be the first [[all-star game]] for professional [[American football]].

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; In a [[1901 State of the Union Address|State of the Union message]], U.S. President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] delivers a 20,000-word report to the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".  The speech was not delivered in person.
*[[1904]] &ndash; The [[Moons of Jupiter|Jovian moon]] [[Himalia (moon)|Himalia]] is discovered by [[Charles Dillon Perrine]] at California's [[Lick Observatory]].
*[[1910]] &ndash; Modern [[neon lighting]] is first demonstrated by [[Georges Claude]] at the [[Paris Motor Show]].
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]], [[Kingdom of Montenegro|Montenegro]], and [[Kingdom of Serbia|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.)
*[[1919]] &ndash; After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the [[Quebec Bridge]] opens to traffic.
*[[1920]] &ndash; Following more than a month of [[Turkish–Armenian War]], the Turkish-dictated [[Treaty of Alexandropol]] is concluded.
*[[1925]] &ndash; Final agreement is signed between the [[Irish Free State]], [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[United Kingdom]] formalizing the [[Partition of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1925/dec/08/ireland-confirmation-of-agreement-bill |title=Hansard; Commons, 2nd and 3rd readings, 8 Dec 1925 |work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |date=8 December 1925 |access-date=2023-06-10}}</ref>  
*[[1929]] &ndash; President [[Herbert Hoover]] delivers his first [[1929 State of the Union Address|State of the Union message]] to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou.php |title=State of the Union Addresses and Messages |last1=Peters |first1=Gerbhard |last2=Woolley |first2=John T. |website=The American Presidency Project |access-date=December 1, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Nazi Germany]] issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell [[real property]], [[business]]es, and [[stocks]] at below market value as part of [[Aryanization]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=1938: Key Dates|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/1938-key-dates|access-date=2022-01-17|website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|language=en}}</ref> 
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Greek Civil War]]: [[Dekemvriana|Fighting]] breaks out in [[Athens]] between the [[Greek People's Liberation Army|ELAS]] and government forces supported by the [[British Army]].
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[Väinö Linna]]'s war novel ''[[The Unknown Soldier (novel)|The Unknown Soldier]]'' (''Tuntematon sotilas'') is published.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.verkkouutiset.fi/a/eduskunnassa-juhlittiin-70-vuotiasta-tuntematonta-sotilasta/#b0cd81e5|title=Eduskunnassa juhlittiin 70-vuotiasta Tuntematonta sotilasta|trans-title=The 70-year-old 'The Unknown Soldier' was celebrated in the Finnish Parliament|first=Ville|last=Mäkilä|work=Verkkouutiset|date=4 December 2024|access-date=5 December 2024|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; The current [[flag of Singapore]] is adopted, six months after [[Singapore]] became self-governing within the [[British Empire]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; The musical ''[[Camelot (musical)|Camelot]]'' debuts at the [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|Majestic Theatre]] on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. It will become associated with the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy administration]].
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Soviet Union]], [[Space probe]] of the [[Luna program]], called [[Luna 8]], is launched, but crashes on the Moon.<ref>[https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-099A Luna 8 (Ye-6 No.12)]</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; 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]]).
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]: Pakistan launches [[Operation Chengiz Khan|a pre-emptive strike]] against India and a full-scale war begins.
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Spantax Flight 275]] crashes during takeoff from [[Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport]], killing all 155 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado EC-BZR Tenerife-Los Rodeos International Airport (TCI)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19721203-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-02|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050421111808/http://www.aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19721203-0 |archive-date=2005-04-21 }}</ref>
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Pioneer program]]: [[Pioneer 10]] sends back the first close-up images of [[Jupiter]].
*[[1979]] &ndash; In [[Cincinnati]], 11 fans are suffocated in [[The Who concert disaster|a crush for seats]] on the concourse outside [[Riverfront Coliseum]] before a [[The Who|Who]] concert.
*  1979   &ndash; [[Iranian Revolution]]: Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] becomes the first [[Supreme Leader of Iran]].
*[[1982]] &ndash; A soil sample is taken from [[Times Beach, Missouri]], that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of [[Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins|dioxin]].
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[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 later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
*[[1989]] &ndash; In a [[Malta Summit|meeting]] off the coast of Malta, U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] and Soviet General Secretary [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] release statements indicating that the [[Cold War]] between [[NATO]] and the [[Warsaw Pact]] may be coming to an end.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The Greek [[oil tanker]] ''Aegean Sea'', carrying 80,000 tonnes of [[crude oil]], runs aground in a storm while approaching [[A Coruña]], Spain, and [[Aegean Sea oil spill|spills much of its cargo]].
*  1992   &ndash; A test engineer for [[Sema Group]] uses a personal computer to send the world's first [[text message]] via the [[Vodafone]] network to the phone of a colleague.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Taiwan]] holds its first full local elections; [[James Soong]] elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of [[Taiwan Province|Taiwan]], [[Chen Shui-bian]] became the first directly elected [[Mayor of Taipei|Mayor]] of [[Taipei]], [[Wu Den-yih]] became the first directly elected [[Mayor of Kaohsiung|Mayor]] of [[Kaohsiung]].
*  1994   &ndash; [[Sony]] releases the [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] game console in Japan.<ref name="developmentJP">{{cite web |url=http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdatajpn_e.html |title=Business Development/Japan |access-date=19 December 2007 |publisher=[[Sony Computer Entertainment]]|location=[[Tokyo]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040422074823/http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdatajpn_e.html|archive-date=22 April 2004}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701]] crashes on approach to [[Douala International Airport]] in [[Douala]], [[Cameroon]], killing 71 of the 76 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-2K9 TJ-CBE Douala Airport (DLA)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19951203-0|url-status=live|access-date=2019-08-24|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050322002330/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19951203-0 |archive-date=2005-03-22 }}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; In [[Ottawa|Ottawa, Ontario]], Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the [[Ottawa Treaty]] prohibiting manufacture and deployment of [[anti-personnel landmine]]s. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[NASA]] loses radio contact with the [[Mars Polar Lander]] moments before the spacecraft enters the [[Atmosphere of Mars|Martian atmosphere]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; In [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], firefighters responded to a fire at the [[Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire|Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co.]] facility, which takes the lives of 6 firefighters.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 1999 |title=Abandoned Cold Storage Warehouse Multi- Firefighter Fatality Fire |url=http://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-134.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030906214359/https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-134.pdf |archive-date=September 6, 2003 |work=U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series |via=[[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[XCOR Aerospace]] makes the [[Rocket mail#Reusable launch vehicles|first crewed rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail]] in [[Kern County, California]].
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Great Coastal Gale of 2007|Winter storms]] cause the [[Chehalis River (Washington)|Chehalis River]] to flood many cities in [[Lewis County, Washington]], and close a {{convert|20|mi|km|order=flip|adj=on}} portion of [[Interstate 5 in Washington|Interstate 5]] for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
*[[2009]] &ndash; A [[2009 Hotel Shamo bombing|suicide bombing]] at a hotel in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]], kills 25 people, including three ministers of the [[Transitional Federal Government]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; At least 475 people are killed after [[Typhoon Bopha]] makes landfall in the [[Philippines]].
*[[2014]] &ndash; The Japanese space agency, [[JAXA]], launches the space explorer [[Hayabusa2]] from the [[Tanegashima Space Center]] on a six-year round trip mission to an [[162173 Ryugu|asteroid]] to collect rock samples.
*[[2022]] &ndash; Massive power outage after [[Moore County substation attack]], that leaves 45,000 people, without power, for five days, leading to a [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] probe.<ref>[https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/duke-energy-moore-county-substation-attack-fbi-following-new-lead-honda-minivan/275-be4b4118-f2dd-40c0-8c53-859dda3fcd8d 45K without power after substation attacks in Moore County][https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/duke-energy-moore-county-substation-attack-fbi-following-new-lead-honda-minivan/275-be4b4118-f2dd-40c0-8c53-859dda3fcd8d][https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article269579392.html][https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2022/12/04/moore-county-power-outage-investigated-as-vandalism/69699328007/]</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; [[Mount Marapi]] located in [[West Sumatra]], [[Indonesia]] begins a [[2023 eruption of Mount Marapi|sporadic series of eruptions]]. 23 people were killed, and 12 were injured.<ref>{{cite news |date=2023-12-05 |title=Death toll rises to 23 after surprise eruption of Indonesia's Mount Marapi |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/indonesia-mount-marapi-death-toll-rises-23-rcna128269 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |via=[[NBC News]] |access-date=2023-12-07 |archive-date=2023-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206084759/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/indonesia-mount-marapi-death-toll-rises-23-rcna128269 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[2024 South Korean martial law|Martial law is declared]] in [[South Korea]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-05 |title=What Just Happened in South Korea? |url=https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/morning/what-just-happened-in-south-korea/ |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=The Dispatch |language=en-US}}</ref>