It happened on this day, December 3
Events:
915 – John X crowns Berengar I Holy Roman Emperor.
1101 – Abu Ali Al-Mansur assumes the caliphate and takes the title of Commander of the Laws of God, becoming the tenth Fatimid caliph.
1586 – English sailor and explorer Sir Thomas Herriot discovers the potato plant in Colombia, South America.
1621 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei invents his telescope.
1800 – Battle of Hohenlinden (during the French Revolutionary Wars. The French army led by Jean Victor Marie Moreau wins a decisive victory over the Austrians and Bavarians led by Archduke John of Austria).
1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state
1866 – The Syrian Protestant College opens in Beirut, currently known as the American University.
1882 – The trial of the leaders of the Urabi Revolution begins in Egypt.
1922 – The film “The Story of the Sea” begins showing in a New York movie theater, which is the first color motion picture.
1956 – The withdrawal of French and British forces from Egypt is completed after the failure of the so-called tripartite aggression launched by the two countries against Israel.
1958 – Indonesia nationalizes Dutch interests on its territory.
1973 – The United Nations issues resolutions to punish war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
1984 – An explosion at the Union Carbide chemical plant in the Indian city of Bhopal claimed 3,800 lives and affected between 150,000 and 600,000 people. The incident became known as the Bhopal disaster and it is one of the worst industrial disasters in history. in terms of the number of people affected.
1987 – The United Nations General Assembly agrees by 129 votes to hold an international peace conference in the Middle East.
1990 – The Somali capital, Mogadishu, falls to rebels against the regime of President Mohamed Siad Barre.
1992 – The UN Security Council approves a US-led military intervention in Somalia to end the civil war after the collapse of President Mohamed Siad Barre's government.
1992 – Al-Qassam Brigades fighters attacked an Israeli military enclave of occupation south of the sea on Sheikh Ajlin Road in Gaza City just a few meters away, and flooded it with a barrage of (30 ) bullets, while the occupying army hid its losses.
1994 – Sony releases the first PlayStation device for sale.
2012 – At least 475 people were killed by Typhoon Buba in the Philippines.
2018 – The OSIRIS-REx sample return mission probe arrives at the asteroid Bennu 101955 to survey and study its surface, and will return to Earth with some samples by September 24, 2023.
💥 Qatar announces its withdrawal from OPEC from January 2019.
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Births:
1368 – King Charles VI, king of France.
1447 – Bayezid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1800 – Franze Prešeren, Slovenian poet.
1857 – Joseph Conrad, Polish writer and novelist.
1880 – Fedor von Bock, German soldier.
1886 – Karl Mann Sigbahn, Swedish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924.
1887 – Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan.
1900 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938.
1911 – Nino Rota, Italian composer.
1921 – Madiha Yousry, Egyptian actress.
1925 – Kim Dae-jung, president of South Korea, wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.
1927 – Andy Williams, American singer.
1933 – Paul Crutzen, Dutch chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995.
1951 – Emad Rashad, Egyptian actor.
1960 – Julianne Moore, American actress.
** Daryl Hannah, American actress.
1966 – Fleming Povlsen, Danish footballer.
1968 – Brendan Fraser, Canadian actor.
1970 – Christian Karembeu, French footballer.
1973 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress.
1978 – Trina, American rapper.
** Dima Bayaa, Syrian actress.
1981 – Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer.
** David Villa, Spanish footballer.
1982 – Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer.
1984: Avram Papadopoulos, Greek footballer.
1985 – Amanda Seyfried, American actress.
1996 – Shouq Al-Hadi, Kuwaiti actress.
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Death:
311 – Diocletian, Roman emperor.
1376 – Muhammad bin Saeed Al-Ra'ini, Moroccan jurist, hadith specialist, interpreter and writer.
1552 – Saint Francis Xavier, Christian missionary.
1702 – Ahmed bin Al-Hussein Al-Trabelsi, Libyan jurist, writer and poet.
1733 – Michel Le Quin, French historian and theologian.
1823 – Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and adventurer.
1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist.
1966 – Abd al-Rahman al-Rafi'i, Egyptian historian.
1969 – Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al Sheikh, Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1992 – Salah Kabil, Egyptian actor.
1999 – Muhammad Al-Sari'i, Kuwaiti actor.
2001 – Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer.
2009 – Jassim Al-Saleh, Kuwaiti actor.
2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor.
2012 – Fyodor Khitruk, Russian painter and director.
** Rajab Al Majri, Libyan poet.
2013 – Reda Hafez, Egyptian lieutenant general and minister of military production.
** Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet.
2019 – Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Egyptian singer.
2019 – Cha In Ha, South Korean actor and singer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ International Day of People with Special Needs.
⏪ International Day of Basque Languages.
⏪ Doctor’s Day in Cuba.
