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'''[[December 3]]''': [[Calendar of saints|Feast day]] of '''[[Francis Xavier|St. Francis Xavier]]''' |
'''[[December 3]]''': [[Calendar of saints|Feast day]] of '''[[Francis Xavier|St. Francis Xavier]]''' |
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* [[1854]] - [[mining|Miners]] at '''[[Eureka Stockade]]''' clashed violently with the police and the military in [[Ballarat, Victoria|Ballarat]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] in [[Australia]]. |
* [[1854]] - [[mining|Miners]] at '''[[Eureka Stockade]]''' clashed violently with the police and the military in [[Ballarat, Victoria|Ballarat]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] in [[Australia]]. |
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Revision as of 22:04, 3 December 2005
December 3: Feast day of St. Francis Xavier
- 1854 - Miners at Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria in Australia.
- 1937 - Issue 1 of The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, went on sale.
- 1967 - A team led by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.
- 1984 - Bhopal gas disaster: The accidental release of methyl isocyanate over Bhopal, India resulted in at least 18,000 deaths in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
- 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander (pictured) reached Mars and disappeared.
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