Talk:December 3
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Selected anniversaries entry for this day. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this entry. --mav 00:55, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- 1854 - Miners at Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria in Australia.
- 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.
- 1937 - Issue 1 of The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, went on sale.
- 1967 - A team led by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.
- 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander (pictured) reached Mars and disappeared.
Recent days: December 2 – December 1 – November 30
removed:
- 1833 - Oberlin College, first coeducational college in the United States, opens.
It did happen in 1833 but the only refs I could find to any particular date was on 'this day in history'-type webpages (very bad source). --mav 09:15, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Removed:
- 1896 - Hermann Hollerith creates the Tabulating Machine Company.
Could not be confirmed. Wikipedia seems to be the only real source for this date (the year seems to be right, however). --mav 09:15, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
