What are the important events that happened on December 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 3 is the 337^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 20, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,412,000 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontaheptagon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 76 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,730 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 3 Historical Events

• 1834 –
  The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
• 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.
• 1960 –
  The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway, and would become associated with the Kennedy administration.
• 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).
• 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 –
  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.
• 2005 –
  XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
• 2007 –
  Winter storms cause 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.

Who were born on December 3?

• 1729 –
  Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1783)
• 1864 –
  Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (d. 1924)
• 1880 –
  Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1933 –
  Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1951 –
  Mike Bantom, American basketball player
• 1968 –
  Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor
• 1968 –
  Montell Jordan, American singer and record producer
• 1979 –
  Sean Parker, American Internet technology businessman and entrepreneur
• 1980 –
  Anna Chlumsky, American actress
• 1980 –
  Jenna Dewan, American actress

Who died on December 3?

• 1265 –
  Odofredus, Italian jurist
• 1888 –
  Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
• 1894 –
  Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (b. 1850)
• 1939 –
  Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1967 –
  Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
• 1972 –
  Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
• 1973 –
  Bea Miles, Australian eccentric and writer (b. 1902)
• 1999 –
  Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2000 –
  Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2006 –
  Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977)