915
Year 915 ( CMXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* Summer – Battle of Garigliano: The Christian League, personally led by Pope John X, lays s ...
Austrian
Austrian may refer to:
* Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent
** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law
* Austrian German dialect
* Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...
French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
. Coupled with
First Consul
The Consulate (french: Le Consulat) was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term ''The Co ...
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 18 ...
Aamulehti
( Finnish for "morning newspaper") is a Finnish-language daily newspaper published in Tampere, Finland.
History and profile
''Aamulehti'' was founded in 1881 to "improve the position of the Finnish people and the Finnish language" during R ...
Charles Dillon Perrine
Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867June 21, 1951) was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936 ...
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...
Balkan League
The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which a ...
) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
* 1919 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
– Following more than a month of
Turkish–Armenian War
The Turkish–Armenian war ( hy, Հայ-թուրքական պատերազմ), known in Turkey as the Eastern Front ( tr, Doğu Cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence, was a conflict between the First Republic of Armenia and the Turkish N ...
, the Turkish-dictated
Treaty of Alexandropol
The Treaty of Alexandropol ( hy, Ալեքսանդրապոլի պայմանագիր; tr, Gümrü Anlaşması) was a peace treaty between the First Republic of Armenia and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The treaty ended the Turkish-Armenian ...
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...
between the
ELAS
The Greek People's Liberation Army ( el, Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός (ΕΛΑΣ), ''Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós'' (ELAS) was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberat ...
Majestic Theatre Majestic Theatre or Majestic Theater may refer to:
Australia
* Majestic Theatre, Adelaide, former name of a theatre in King William Street, Adelaide, built 1916, now demolished
* Majestic Theatre, Launceston, a former cinema in Tasmania designed ...
Bhopal disaster
The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's ...
: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
* 1989 – In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
anti-personnel landmine
Anti-personnel mines are a form of mine designed for use against humans, as opposed to anti-tank mines, which are designed for use against vehicles. Anti-personnel mines may be classified into blast mines or fragmentation mines; the latter may ...
s. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
Winter storms
A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, Rain and snow mixed, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental climates, these sto ...
cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
* 2009 – A
suicide bombing
A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout histor ...
at a hotel in
Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port ...
Typhoon Bopha
Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever affect the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (28 ...
makes landfall in the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
*
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...
1368
Year 1368 ( MCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 23 – The Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) establishes the Ming Dynasty ...
1560
Year 1560 ( MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – In the Kingdom of Scotland, French troops commanded by Henri Cleutin ...
–
Jan Gruter
Jan Gruter or Gruytère, Latinized as Janus Gruterus (3 December 1560 – 20 September 1627), was a Flemish-born philologist, scholar, and librarian.
Life
Jan Gruter was born in Antwerp. His father was Wouter Gruter, who was a merchant an ...
, Dutch scholar and critic (d. 1627)
*
1590
Events
January–June
* January 4 – The Cortes of Castile approves a new subsidy, the '' millones''.
* March 4 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda, by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat, to ...
– Daniel Seghers, Flemish Jesuit brother and painter (d. 1661)
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 179318 May 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. H ...
, English painter and academic (d. 1867)
* 1800 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (d. 1849)
* 1810 –
Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord
Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (December 3, 1810 – November 23, 1879) was an American plantation owner and author from South Carolina, best known as a political essayist in defense of slavery. McCord, the daughter of Langdon Cheves, was born in ...
1833
Events January–March
* January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the ...
–
Carlos Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes ''Aedes aegypti''.
Biography
Early life and ...
, Cuban epidemiologist and physician (d. 1915)
*
1838
Events
January–March
* January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
* January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...
–
Cleveland Abbe
Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones.
While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily ...
Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. Her pioneering work i ...
1850
Events
January–June
* April
** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome.
** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States.
* April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city ...
1856
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California.
* January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voya ...
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* Jan ...
– Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (d. 1924)
* 1857 –
Mathilde Kralik
Mathilde Aloisia Kralik von Meyrswalden (3 December 1857, in Linz – 8 March 1944) was an Austrian composer.
Biography
Mathilde Kralik was the daughter of Bohemian glass industrialist Wilhelm Kralik von Meyrswalden (1807–1877) from Ele ...
, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1944)
* 1863 – Gussie Davis, African-American songwriter (d. 1899)
* 1864 –
Herman Heijermans
Herman Heijermans (3 December 1864 – 22 November 1924), was a Dutch writer.
Heijermans was born in Rotterdam, into a liberal Jewish family, the fifth of the 11 children of Herman and Matilda (Moses) Spiers. Painter Marie Heijermans was his ...
, Dutch author and playwright (d. 1924)
* 1867 – William John Bowser, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th
Premier of British Columbia
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A premier will normally be a head of gov ...
William Haselden
William Kerridge Haselden (3December 187225December 1953) was an English cartoonist and caricaturist.
He was the second of five children of Adolphe Henry Haselden and his wife Susan Elizabeth (née Kerridge). Haselden's parents were both Engl ...
, English cartoonist (d. 1953)
* 1875 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (d. 1955)
* 1878 – Francis A. Nixon, American businessman (d. 1956)
*
1879
Events January–March
* January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
* January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* Janu ...
–
Albert Asher
Arapeta Paurini Wharepapa (3 December 1879 – 8 January 1965), or Albert Asher as he was more commonly known, was a New Zealand dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s, 1900s, 1910s ...
, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1965)
* 1879 – Charles Hutchison, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
* 1879 –
Kafū Nagai
was a Japanese writer, editor and translator. His works like '' Geisha in Rivalry'' and ''A Strange Tale from East of the River'' are noted for their depictions of life of the demimonde in early 20th-century Tokyo.
Biography
Nagai was born Sōk ...
1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Janua ...
Walther Stampfli Walther Stampfli (3 December 1884 in Büren, Solothurn – 11 October 1965) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1940–1947).
He was elected to the Federal Council on 18 July 1940 and handed over office on 31 Decem ...
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni
General was a Japanese imperial prince, a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from 17 August 1945 to 9 October 1945, a period of 54 days. An uncle-in-law of Emperor Hirohito twice over, Prince Hi ...
Albert Hawke
Albert Redvers George Hawke (3 December 1900 – 14 February 1986) was the 18th Premier of Western Australia. He served from 23 February 1953 to 2 April 1959, and represented the Labor Party.
Hawke was born in South Australia, and began ...
Richard Kuhn
Richard Johann Kuhn (; 3 December 1900 – 1 August 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".
Biography
Early life
Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austr ...
, Austrian-German biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
Edgar Moon
Edgar "Gar" Moon (3 December 1904 – 26 May 1976) was a tennis player from Australia who was best known for winning the 1930 Australian Championships – Men's singles title. He also won the 1932 Men's Doubles title with Jack Crawford. He wo ...
Les Ames
Leslie Ethelbert George Ames (3 December 1905 – 27 February 1990) was a wicket-keeper and batsman for the England cricket team and Kent County Cricket Club. In his obituary, ''Wisden'' described him as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman of a ...
, English cricketer (d. 1990)
* 1907 – Connee Boswell, American jazz singer (d. 1976)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
– Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic (d. 1979)
* 1914 – Irving Fine, American composer and academic (d. 1962)
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' bre ...
– Phyllis Curtin, American soprano and academic (d. 2016)
* 1921 –
John Doar
John Michael Doar (December 3, 1921 – November 11, 2014) was an American lawyer and senior counsel with the law firm Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack in New York City. During the administrations of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, he ...
, American lawyer and activist (d. 2014)
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
– Len Lesser, American actor (d. 2011)
* 1922 – Eli Mandel, Canadian poet, critic, and academic (d. 1992)
* 1922 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish director and cinematographer (d. 2006)
* 1923 –
Trevor Bailey
Trevor Edward Bailey (3 December 1923 – 10 February 2011) was an England Test cricketer, cricket writer and broadcaster.
An all-rounder, Bailey was known for his skilful but unspectacular batting. As the BBC reflected in his obituary: "Hi ...
, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2011)
* 1923 – Stjepan Bobek, Croatian-Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2010)
* 1923 – Moyra Fraser, Australian-English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2009)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
–
Wiel Coerver
Wiel Coerver (; 3 December 1924 – 22 April 2011) was a Dutch football manager and the developer of the "Coerver Method", a football coaching technique.
Playing career
Coerver played five years for local side Rapid JC, with whom he won t ...
, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2011)
* 1924 – F. Sionil José, Filipino journalist, writer and author (d. 2022)
* 1924 –
Roberto Mieres
Roberto Casimiro Mieres (3 December 1924 – 26 January 2012) was a racing driver from Mar del Plata, Argentina. He participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 7 June 1953. He scored a total of 13 championship ...
, Argentinian race car driver and sailor (d. 2012)
* 1925 – Ferlin Husky, American country music singer (d. 2011)
* 1927 – Andy Williams, American singer (d. 2012)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan) is a retired American popular music singer, actress, and game show panelist.
Early life
Morgan was born in Mancos in Montezuma County in far southwestern Colorado. Her family moved to California by ...
, American singer and actress
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
–
Takao Fujinami
(December 3, 1932 – October 28, 2007) was a Japanese politician, former Chief Cabinet Secretary and House of Representatives member.
Born in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Fujinami was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1967 as a Lib ...
, Japanese lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2021)
* 1934 – Nicolas Coster, British-American actor
* 1934 – Viktor Gorbatko, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)
* 1934 –
Abimael Guzmán
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso (; 3 December 1934 − 11 September 2021), also known by his ''nom de guerre'' Chairman Gonzalo ( es, Presidente Gonzalo), was a Peruvian Maoist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, considered a terrorist b ...
, Peruvian philosopher and academic (d. 2021)
* 1935 –
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is an American politician who represents Texas's in the United States House of Representatives. Johnson is a member of the Democratic Party.
Elected in 1992, Johnson was the first registered nurse ...
, American nurse and politician
* 1937 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver and businessman
* 1937 –
Morgan Llywelyn
Morgan Llywelyn (born December 3, 1937) is an American-Irish historical interpretation author of historical and mythological fiction and historical non-fiction. Her interpretation of mythology and history has received several awards and has ...
, American-Irish model and author
* 1937 –
Binod Bihari Verma
Binod Bihari Verma (1937–2003) was a Maithili writer and military doctor. He is known for ''Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan'', his work on ancient genealogical charts known as Panjis, as well as his depiction of rural poor of the ...
Jean-Claude Malépart
Jean-Claude Malépart (3 December 1938 – 16 November 1989) was a French Canadian politician.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Charles-Auguste Malépart and Germaine Mérineau, Malépart was elected to the National Assembly of Quebe ...
, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
* 1938 –
Sally Shlaer
Sally hashim Shlaer (December 3, 1938 – November 12, 1998) was an American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist,1939 – John Paul, Sr., Dutch-American race car driver
* 1939 – David Phillips, English chemist and academic
* 1940 – Jeffrey R. Holland, American academic and religious leader
* 1942 – Mike Gibson, Northern Irish-Irish rugby player
* 1942 – Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 2013)
* 1942 – Alice Schwarzer, German journalist and publisher, founded '' EMMA Magazine''
* 1942 –
David K. Shipler
David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1987 for '' Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land''. Among his other publications the book entitled, '' ...
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
Rick Mears
Rick Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951) is a retired American race car driver. He is one of four men to win the Indianapolis 500 four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991) and is the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (197 ...
, American race car driver
* 1951 – Mike Stock, English songwriter, record producer, and musician
* 1952 –
Don Barnes
Richard Donald Barnes (born December 3, 1952) is an American rock vocalist and guitarist and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band 38 Special. Barnes performed lead vocals on nearly all of the group's biggest hits, including " ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1952 – Benny Hinn, Israeli-American evangelist and author
* 1952 –
Duane Roland
Duane Roland (December 3, 1952 – June 19, 2006) was an American guitarist for the Southern hard rock band Molly Hatchet. He was a member of the band from its founding in the mid-1970s until his departure in 1990. During that time he recorde ...
, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2006)
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
– Franz Klammer, Austrian skier and race car driver
* 1953 –
Rob Waring
Rob Waring (born December 3, 1956 in Yonkers, New York) is an American-Norwegian Contemporary music composer and performer (drums and vibraphone), commonly associated with symphony orchestras and jazz ensembles.
Career
Waring studied with R ...
, American-Norwegian vibraphonist and contemporary composer
* 1954 – Grace Andreacchi, American-English author, poet, and playwright
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
–
Ewa Kopacz
Ewa Bożena Kopacz (; née Lis; born 3 December 1956) is a Polish politician who has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was Marshal of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014, the first woman to hold the office, as ...
, Irish journalist and game show host
* 1960 – Daryl Hannah, American actress and producer
* 1960 – Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1960 – Julianne Moore, American actress and author
* 1960 – Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player and coach
* 1962 – Richard Bacon, English banker, journalist, and politician
* 1962 – Nataliya Grygoryeva, Ukrainian hurdler
* 1963 – Joe Lally, American singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1963 – Terri Schiavo, American medical patient (d. 2005)
* 1964 – Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
* 1965 – Andrew Stanton, American voice actor, director, producer, screenwriter
* 1965 – Katarina Witt, German figure skater and actress
* 1966 – Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer and manager
* 1966 –
Irina Zhuk
Irina (Cyrillic: Ирина) is a feminine given name of Ancient Greek origin, commonly borne by followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is derived from Eirene ( Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη), an ancient Greek goddess, personification of p ...
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
Bill Steer
William Geoffrey Steer (born 3 December 1969) is a British guitarist and co-founder of the extreme metal band Carcass. He is considered a pioneer and an essential contributor to grindcore and death metal due to his involvement in Napalm Death and ...
, English guitarist and songwriter
* 1969 – Hal Steinbrenner, American businessman
* 1970 –
Paul Byrd
Paul Gregory Byrd (born December 3, 1970), is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who is currently a TV sports broadcaster for Atlanta Braves games on Bally Sports Southeast. While pitching in Major League Baseball (MLB), ...
, American baseball player
* 1970 –
Lindsey Hunter
Lindsey Benson Hunter Jr. (born December 3, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1993 to 2010, spending most of his career with the Detroit Pistons. He ...
Charl Willoughby
Charl Myles Willoughby (born 3 December 1974) is a retired South African cricketer who played two Tests and three One Day Internationals for South Africa between 2000 and 2003. He played for Boland and Western Province before spending two s ...
Byron Kelleher
Byron Terence Kelleher (born 3 December 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a former rugby union scrum-half who played for Stade Toulouse in the French Top 14 and has played 57 tests for the All Blacks. He was a very aggressive player, who specia ...
, New Zealand rugby player
* 1976 – Tomotaka Okamoto, Japanese soprano
* 1977 – Chad Durbin, American baseball player
* 1977 – Troy Evans, American football player
* 1977 –
Adam Małysz
Adam Henryk Małysz (; born 3 December 1977) is a Polish former ski jumper and rally driver. He competed in ski jumping from 1995 to 2011 and is one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport. His many accomplishments include f ...
, Polish ski jumper and race car driver
* 1977 – Yelena Zadorozhnaya, Russian runner
* 1978 –
Trina
Katrina Laverne Taylor (born December 3, 1978), known professionally as Trina, is an American rapper. She rose to prominence in 1998 with her appearance on the Trick Daddy single "Nann Nigga".
Trina has been described by '' XXL'' as "the mos ...
, American rapper and producer
* 1978 – Daniel Alexandersson, Swedish footballer
* 1978 – Jiří Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player
* 1978 –
Bram Tankink
Bram Tankink (born 3 December 1978) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who competed between 2000 and 2018 for the Löwik Meubelen–Tegeltoko, , and squads.
Born in Haaksbergen, Tankink started his career as a mountain biker, b ...
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
Tyjuan Hagler
Tyjuan Cedric Hagler (born December 3, 1981) is a former American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft and later won Super Bowl XLI wi ...
, American football player
* 1981 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (d. 2010)
* 1981 –
David Villa
David Villa Sánchez (; born 3 December 1981) is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Villa is regarded by pundits as one of the best forwards of his generation, and one of the best Spanish strikers of all time. ...
Manny Corpas
Manuel Corpas (born December 3, 1982) is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher for the Martinez Sturgeon of the Pecos League. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs.
Career
Colorado Ro ...
Stephen Donald
Stephen Rex Donald (born 3 December 1983) is a New Zealand rugby union player who currently plays for the NEC Green Rockets in the Japanese Top League. A first five-eighth or centre, he has won 24 international caps for New Zealand. Nicknamed 'B ...
, New Zealand rugby player
* 1983 – Sherri DuPree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1983 – Andy Grammer, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
* 1983 – James Ihedigbo, American football player
* 1983 – Aleksey Drozdov, Russian decathlete
* 1984 –
Avraam Papadopoulos
Avraam Papadopoulos ( el, Αβραάμ Παπαδόπουλος; born 3 December 1984) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Greek parents.
Club career
Aris
Papadopoulos ...
Erik Grönwall
Per Erik Magnus Grönwall (born 3 December 1987) is a Swedish hard rock and heavy metal singer. In 2009, he won the Swedish ''Idol'' reality television. During several of the shows, he received standing ovations from the jury for his performanc ...
, Swedish singer-songwriter
* 1987 –
Brian Robiskie
Brian Anthony Robiskie (born December 3, 1987) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State.
Robiskie has also played f ...
Selçuk Alibaz
Selçuk Alibaz (born 3 December 1989) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a right midfielder for Fethiyespor.
Career
German-born Alibaz earned his sole cap in the Turkish Süper Lig with Eskişehirspor on 26 April 2009 in a match against Trabzo ...
, Turkish footballer
* 1989 – Tomasz Narkun, Polish mixed martial artist
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
–
Solomone Kata
Solomone Kata (born 3 December 1994) is a Tongan professional Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, dual-code Rugby football, rugby player who plays as a Wing (rugby union), wing for Premiership Rugby, Gallagher Premiership club Leicester ...
, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1994 – Lil Baby, American rapper
* 1994 – Bernarda Pera, American tennis player
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
311 311 may refer to:
* 311 (number), a natural number
* AD 311, a year of the Julian calendar, in the fourth century AD
* 311 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
* 311 (band), an American band
** ''311'' (album), band 311's self-titled album
...
649
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Year 649 ( DCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 649 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...
Emma of Lesum
Emma of Lesum or Emma of Stiepel (also known as Hemma and Imma) (c. 975-980 – 3 December 1038) was a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works; she is also the first female inhabitant of Bremen to be known by name.
See also ...
Odofredus
Odofredus (died 3 December 1265) was an Italian jurist. He was born in Ostia and moved to Bologna, studying law under Jacobus Balduinus and Franciscus Accursius. After working as an advocate in Italy and France, he became a law professor in Bo ...
, Italian lawyer and jurist
*
1266
Year 1266 ( MCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* January 2 – Siege of Murcia: King James I of Aragon (the Conqueror) marches with h ...
–
Henry III the White
Henry III the White ( pl, Henryk III Biały) ( – 3 December 1266), a member of the Silesian Piasts, was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1248 until his death, as co-ruler with his brother Władysław.
Life
He was the third son of the Polish hi ...
, Duke of Wroclaw
*
1309
Year 1309 ( MCCCIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* March 14 – Sultan Muhammad III is deposed during a palace coup after a 7-year ...
–
Henry III, Duke of Głogów
Henry III of Głogów ( pl, Henryk; 1251/60 – 11 December 1310) was a duke of Glogów from 1274 to his death and also duke of parts of Greater Poland during 1306–1310.
He was one of the sons (probably the second) of Konrad I, Duke of Głog� ...
Maud Chaworth
Maud de Chaworth (2 February 1282 – 3 December 1322) was an English noblewoman and wealthy heiress. She was the only child of Patrick de Chaworth. Sometime before 2 March 1297, she married Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, by whom she had seven c ...
, Countess of Leicester (b. 1282)
*
1532
Year 1532 (Roman numerals, MDXXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 22 – São Vicente, São Paulo, São Vicente is established as ...
Jean Tixier de Ravisi
Jean Tixier de Ravisi (c. 1470–1542) was a French Renaissance humanist scholar and professor of rhetoric. He was born in Ravisi, which is near the commune of Saint-Saulge in the central province of Nivernais. His works, which are mostly on the ...
, French scholar and academic (b. 1470)
* 1552 – Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506)
* 1592 –
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese ( it, Alessandro Farnese, es, Alejandro Farnesio; 27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592) was an Italian noble and condottiero and later a general of the Spanish army, who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592 ...
(b. 1545)
1601–1900
*
1610
Some have suggested that 1610 may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, or the 'Age of Man', marking a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system, but earlier starting dates (ca. 1000 C.E.) have received broa ...
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, (28 March 1591 – 3 December 1668), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1605 to 1612, was an English peer, nobleman, and politician.
Early years, 1591–1612
Cecil was the son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of ...
(b. 1591)
*
1691
Events
January–March
* January 6 – King William III of England, who rules Scotland and Ireland as well as being the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, departs from Margate to tend to the affairs of the Netherlands.
* January 14 – A ...
–
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (22 March 1615 – 3 December 1691), also known as Lady Ranelagh, was an Anglo-Irish scientist in seventeenth-century Britain. She was also a political and religious philosopher, and a member of many intel ...
1765
Events January–March
* January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna.
* January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ru ...
–
Lord John Sackville
Lord John Philip Sackville (22 June 1713 – 3 December 1765) was the second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. He was a keen cricketer who was closely connected with the sport in Kent.
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamwort ...
, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713)
* 1789 –
Claude Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Life and work
Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Verne ...
, French painter (b. 1714)
* 1815 – John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735)
* 1876 –
Samuel Cooper Samuel or Sam Cooper may refer to:
*Samuel Cooper (painter) (1609–1672), English miniature painter
*Samuel Cooper (clergyman) (1725–1783), Congregationalist minister in Boston, Massachusetts
* Samuel Cooper (surgeon) (1780–1848), English surge ...
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Prudente de Morais
Prudente José de Morais e Barros (; 4 October 1841 – 3 December 1902) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who was the third president of Brazil. He is notable as the first civilian president of the country, the first to be elected by dire ...
Harold Garnett
Harold Gwyer Garnett (19 November 1879 – 3 December 1917) was an English-born first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club and Argentina. He was killed during World War I in the fighting at Cambrai
Cambrai (, ; pc ...
, English-French cricketer (b. 1879)
* 1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (b. 1841)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
– Ezra Meeker, American farmer and politician (b. 1830)
* 1934 –
Charles James O'Donnell
Charles James O'Cahan O'Donnell (1849 – 3 December 1934) was an Irish colonial administrator in the British Raj, and later a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
O'Donnell was born in Donegal in 1849. He was educated at Queens ...
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
Princess Victoria (Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary; 6 July 1868 – 3 December 1935) was the fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and the younger sister of King George V.
Early life and education
Victoria ...
William Propsting
William Bispham Propsting, CMG (4 June 1861 – 3 December 1937) was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, who served as Premier of Tasmania from 9 April 1903 to 11 July 1904.
Early life
Propsting was born in ...
, Australian politician, 20th
Premier of Tasmania
The premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania. By convention, the leader of the party or political grouping which has majority support in the House of Assembly is invited by the governor of ...
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
–
Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandyopadhyay lias Banerjee(; 19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956) is an Indian Litterateur regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. During a lifespan of 48 years and 28 years of literary career, battling with ...
, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1908)
* 1956 –
Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders ...
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
Joel Rinne
Toivo Joel Rinne (6 June 1897, Asikkala – 3 December 1981) was a prolific Finnish actor of stage and screen. Among his most memorable film parts was the title role in the Inspector Palmu movie series, which started in 1960's ''Komisario Palmun e ...
Connie B. Gay
Connie Barriot Gay (August 22, 1914 – December 3, 1989) was renowned as a "founding father" and "major force" in country music. He is credited for coining the country music genre, which had previously been called hillbilly music. Gay was the ...
Georges Duby
Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Fran ...
Pierre Hétu
Pierre Hétu (April 22, 1936 in Montreal – December 3, 1998 in Montreal) was a conductor and pianist. He studied music from 1955–57 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Germaine Malépart (piano) and at the ...
, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1936)
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
– John Archer, American actor (b. 1915)
* 1999 – Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942)
* 1999 –
Madeline Kahn
Madeline Gail Kahn (''née'' Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including '' What's Up, Doc?'' (1972), ' ...
, American actress, comedian, and singer (b. 1942)
* 1999 –
Horst Mahseli
Horst Mahseli (20 January 1934 – 3 December 1999) was a Polish footballer, who is most famous for his 1950s performances in both Legia Warsaw
Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional fo ...
Sita Ram Goel
Sita Ram Goel (16 October 1921 – 3 December 2003) was an Indian historian, religious and political activist, writer, and publisher in the late twentieth century. He had Marxist leanings during the 1940s, but later became an outspoken anti-co ...
, Indian historian, publisher and writer (b. 1921)
* 2004 – Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
* 2005 –
Frederick Ashworth
Frederick Lincoln "Dick" Ashworth (24 January 1912 – 3 December 2005) was a United States Navy officer who served as the weaponeer on the B-29 ''Bockscar'' that dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945 during Worl ...
, American admiral (b. 1912)
* 2005 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
* 2005 –
Kikka Sirén Kirsi Hannele Sirén (née Viilonen; 26 October 1964 – 3 December 2005), better known by her stage name Kikka, was a Finnish pop/ schlager singer. She was known for her sexpot image and suggestive, double entendre-filled songs. Kikka's best-k ...
, Finnish pop/schlager singer (b. 1964)
* 2007 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
– Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist and author (b. 1923)
* 2009 –
Leila Lopes
Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes Umenyiora (born 26 February 1986) is an Angolan model and beauty queen best known for having been crowned Miss Universe 2011. She had previously won Miss Angola UK 2010 and Miss Angola 2010.
Early life
Lop ...
, Brazilian actress and journalist (b. 1959)
* 2009 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British soldier and actor (b. 1919)
* 2010 – Abdumalik Bahori, Azerbaijani poet and author (b. 1927)
* 2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
* 2012 –
Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil
Archbishop Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil ( syr, ܝܘܠܝܘܣ ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ܓܡܝܠ, ar, يوليوس ميخائيل الجميل) (November 18, 1938 – December 3, 2012) was the Syriac Catholic titular archbishop of Tagritum and the auxiliary bisho ...
, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938)
* 2012 – Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
* 2012 – Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
* 2012 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1980)
* 2012 – Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (b. 1966)
* 2013 – Paul Aussaresses, French general (b. 1918)
* 2013 –
Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed
Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed (Arabic: ) (3 March 1952 – 3 December 2013) was the commander of the Egyptian Air Force. Mohamed was also the minister for military production in the interim cabinet led by Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi.
Biograph ...
, Egyptian air marshal (b. 1952)
* 2013 –
Ahmed Fouad Negm
Ahmed Fouad Negm ( ar, أحمد فؤاد نجم, ; 22 May 1929 – 3 December 2013), popularly known as el-Fagommi الفاجومي (), was an Egyptian vernacular poet. Negm is well known for his work with Egyptian composer Sheikh Imam, as well a ...
, Egyptian poet and educator (b. 1929)
*
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...
Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim
Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim (15 April 1777 - 3 December 1860) was an Austrian-Italian Roman Catholic prelate and the Bishop of Trent from 1834 until his death. He was born to Austrians but was considered to be an Austro-Italian d ...
December 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), December 2 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – December 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), December 4
All fixed Synaxarium, commemorations below celebrated on December 16 by Eastern Orthodox Church, ...
*
Doctors' Day
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Cuba
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*
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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