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December 3

December 3 is the 337th day (338th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days remaining.

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1 Events

1818 - Illinois becomes 21st U.S. state
1833 - Oberlin College, first coeducational college in the United States, opens
1896 - Hermann Hollerith[?] creates the Tabulating Machine Company
1912 - First Balkan War ends
1944 - Civil war breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between Communists and royalists
1967 - First human heart transplant[?] performed by a team headed by Christiaan Barnard.
1970 -
- Montreal, Quebec: After being held hostage for 60 days, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Quebec terrorist group after negotions with police.
- Five of the known terrorists of the Chenier Cell of the Front de Libération du Quebec are granted their request for safe passage to Cuba by the Government of Canada after approval by Fidel Castro.
1984 - Methyl isocyanate from a Union Carbide[?] pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 2000 people and injures over 150,000.

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