December 3 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2014 — The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip... ↗
• 2012 — At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines. ↗
• 2009 — A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government. ↗
• 2007 — Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for... ↗
• 2005 — XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1992 — Cristian Ceballos, Spanish footballer
• 1991 — Ekaterine Gorgodze, Georgian tennis player
• 1990 — Christian Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1990 — Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player
• 1989 — Alex McCarthy, English footballer