3rd December anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1803
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of the Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, parish priest and the writer of The Song of Western Men, better known as Trelawny and the unofficial national anthem of Cornwall." more
  • 1857
  • "Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski 1857 (died 1924), the son of Polish patriots. After taking to the sea at 16, he qualified as a master mariner, before turning to a literary career when posts in sailing ships became rarer. The Nigger of"
• event
  • 1988
  • "Junior health minister Edwina Currie said that most eggs produced in Britain were infected with salmonella. Egg sales fell by 60% overnight,."
  • 1989
  • US President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the Cold War at a meeting in Malta
  • 1993
  • Princess Diana announced that she was withdrawing from public life .
  • 1999
  • NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it arrived at Mars. It was presumed to have crashed
  • 1926
  • Agatha Christie vanishes
  • 1967
  • First human heart transplant (in South Africa by Christiaan Barnard)
  • 1979
  • "Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at a rock concert in Cincinnati, Ohio, where British rock band The Who were performing"
  • 1984
  • India
  • "A poisonous gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India killed thousands of people and left 120,000 with long-term health problems" more
• Death
  • 1999
  • "Death of Madeline Kahn, award-winning American stage and film actress (Blazing saddles, Paper Moon, and other roles)"