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Events on December 3

• 1740 Pope Benedict XIV establishes the tradition of encyclicals in the Roman Catholic Church. The first teaching document under the title Ubi primum deals with the duties of bishops and the administration of their office.
• 1818 The southern part of the existing Illinois Territory is admitted to the United States as the 21st state under the name Illinois. The northern part is added to Michigan Territory.
• 1896 Herman Hollerith founds the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor of IBM.
• 1918 Bruno Beye, César Klein, Max Pechstein and others found the revolutionary artists' association Novembergruppe in Berlin.
• 1930 Franz Lehár's operetta The World Is Beautiful premieres at the Metropol Theater in Berlin.
• 1950 Following the entry into force of the new constitution of West Berlin as a result of the division of the city, elections to the Berlin House of Representatives are held for the first time. The SPD does suffer heavy losses, but with 44.7 percent of the votes, it remains the largest parliamentary group by a clear margin.
• 1965 The Beatles release their sixth album Rubber Soul.
• 1967 South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard succeeds in performing the first heart transplantation in a human being at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Louis Washkansky receives the heart of the 25-year-old accident victim Denise Darvall. Despite the successful operation, the patient dies of pneumonia on December 21.
• 1989 In the course of the turnaround and peaceful revolution in East Germany, General Secretary Egon Krenz, the Politburo and the Central Committee of the SED resign en bloc.
• 1989 At their summit meeting in Malta, U.S. President George Bush and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Mikhail Gorbachev proclaim the end of the Cold War, negotiations on disarmament treaties and economic cooperation.
• 1992 Engineer Neil Papworth sends the world's first short message (SMS) with the text “Merry Christmas” from a PC to an Orbitel TPU 901 mobile phone on the British Vodafone network.
• 1993 The first letter bombs of Austrian right-wing extremist Franz Fuchs injure the priest August Janisch and the ORF employee Silvana Meixner.

Born on December 3

• 1880 Fedor von Bock, German field marshal
• 1900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist
• 1911 Nino Rota, Italian composer
• 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
• 1931 Franz Josef Degenhardt, German songwriter, writer and lawyer
• 1942 Alice Schwarzer, German journalist
• 1952 Bruno Jonas, German cabaret artist
• 1953 Franz Klammer, Austrian ski racer
• 1960 Julianne Moore, American actress
• 1971 Heiko Herrlich, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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