Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 3

This is a list of selected December 3 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled December 3, 2012 featured article or the December 3, 2012 featured picture.

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Images

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  Mars Polar Lander

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  French General Jean Moreau

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  Neon sign

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  Flag of Singapore (use border with this image)

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1919 – The Quebec Bridge, linking Quebec City and Lévis, Quebec, Canada, opened to traffic, becoming the longest cantilever bridge span in the world to date.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1937 – Issue 1 of The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, went on sale.	refimprove
1944 – The Greek Civil War broke out between communists and royalists in a newly liberated Greece.	neutrality disputed
1967 – Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.	Barnard has unreferenced section, heart transplantation is refimprove
1973 – The Pioneer 10 spacecraft sent back the first close-up images of the planet Jupiter.	appears on June 13

Eligible

• 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces under General Jean Moreau defeated the Austrians and Bavarians under Archduke John in Hohenlinden, near Munich, forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice.
• 1854 – At least 22 people were killed and 35 others were injured when rebelling miners at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, clashed violently with the police and the military.
• 1910 – Modern neon lighting was first seen publicly after installation by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
• 1959 – The current flag of Singapore was adopted, six months after Singapore began self-governing within the British Empire.
• 1984 – Methyl isocyanate and other toxic chemicals were accidentally released from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, resulting in the world's largest industrial disaster.
• 1997 – Representatives from 121 countries signed the Ottawa Treaty banning the use of anti-personnel land mines.
• 1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander (artist's impression pictured) moments before it reached the atmosphere of Mars and disappeared.

  Notes

• Eureka Flag appears on November 29 , so Eureka Rebellion should not be used in the same year

December 3: International Day of People with Disability

• 1904 – Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.
• 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first official film featuring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy (pictured), was released.
• 1971 – The formal initiation of hostilities of the Indo-Pakistani War began with the Pakistani Air Force launching pre-emptive airstrikes on several forward airbases and radar installations of the Indian Air Force.
• 1976 – Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt by unknown assailants.
• 2009 – A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claimed the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.

More anniversaries: December 2 – December 3 – December 4

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