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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 3
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of John Backus; inventor (FORTRAN computer language).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Nicolas Coster in London, England; actor (Lionel - Santa Barbara, Robert Delaney - Another World, Electric Horseman).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Viktor Vassilyevich in Gorbatko, USSR; cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 24, 37/36).
- 90th: 1934 - Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya.
- 80th: 1944 - British order to disarm causes general strike in Greece.
- 80th: 1944 - Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at age 75.
- 80th: 1944 - Hungarian death march of Jews ends.
- 80th: 1944 - NFL Chicago Cardinals-Pittsburgh Steelers merger dissolves.
- 80th: 1944 - US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hürtgenwald.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Paul Gregg; country singer (Restless Heart - "Wheels").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Darryl Hamilton in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; outfielder (Texas Rangers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Toi Cook; cornerback (Carolina Panthers).
- 60th: 1964 - George Brown, cricket player (7 Tests for England), dies.
- 60th: 1964 - Police arrest 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Ralph Staten; safety (Baltimore Ravens).
- 40th: 1984 - A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries).
- 40th: 1984 - British Telecom is privatised.
- 40th: 1984 - Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisconsin, USA.
- 30th: 1994 - Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at age 77.
- 30th: 1994 - Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, is assassinated.
- 30th: 1994 - Said Mekbel, Algerian editor-in-chief (Le Matin), murdered at age 57.
- 30th: 1994 - Sony introduces the PlayStation video game system in Japan. It features a 33 MHz 32-bit MIPS R3000A processor, with special audio and graphics functions integrated, geometry coprocessor, 2 MB RAM, 1 MB video RAM. Graphics resolution is 640x480 in 24-bit color. Price is 39800 yen, about US$399.
- 30th: 1994 - Birth of Jake T. Austin, American actor (Go Diego Go, Wizards of Waverly Place).
- 25th: 1999 - After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 nautical miles (5486 km), Tori Murden crosses the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
- 25th: 1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander, moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general (born 1918).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Madeline Kahn at age 57 of ovarian cancer in New York, USA; actress (Oh Madeline, Cosby, New York News).
- 20th: 2004 - The Colombian government extradites Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela to the United States. Orejuela is one of the most powerful drug dealers in the world, arrested in 1995 and 2003.
- 15th: 2009 - Comcast announces a deal to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal from General Electric, for US$6.5 billion in cash, its own cable TV networks (E!, Versus, the Golf Channel and 10 regional sports networks) and other assets.
- 5th: 2019 - Google founders Serget Brin and Larry Page steo down as president and chief executive, respectively, of Alphabet.
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