* Astronomy

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RE: December 3rd

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Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the Philippines in 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Bopha

The Bhopal disaster occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

On 3 December 1642 Abel Tasman claimed formal possession of Tasmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman#Tasmania

James Grant recorded sighting the Australian mainland on 3 December 1800
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lady_Nelson_(1798)#The_first_passage_through_Bass_Strait

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The first carrier landing and take-off of a jet aircraft, by a De Havilland Vampire on 3rd December 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DeHavilland_Vampire_HMS_Ocean_Dec1945_NAN1_47.jpg

On December 3, 1999, Mars Polar Lander encountered Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander#Landing_encounter_with_Mars

The Boeing X-37 (USA-212) successfully return to Earth on 3 December 2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

The MAQSAT-B2 Satellite re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 3rd December, 2012 @ 04:15 GMT ± 7 minutes.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t51767647/maqsat-b2-satellite-re-entry/

SES-8 was successfully launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 on 3 December 2013, 22:41 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES-8

Hayabusa 2 was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa_2

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Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (born December 3, 1934 in Ventsy-Zarya - May 17, 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Gorbatko

Steven Ray Swanson (born December 3, 1960) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Swanson

Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 - October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Abbe

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (3 December 1886 - 26 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manne_Siegbahn

Sally Shlaer (December 3, 1938 - November 12, 1998) was an American mathematician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Shlaer

Robert George Harrington (December 3, 1904 - June 15, 1987) was an American astronomer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_George_Harrington

Frantisek Nusl (3 December 1867 - 17 September 1951) was a Czech astronomer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Nu%C5%A1l

Joseph Ivor Silk (born 3 December 1942) was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silk

Howard J. Brewington (born December 3, 1952 in South Carolina) is an American comet discoverer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_J._Brewington

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NGC 791 was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arreston the 3rd December 1861.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t61276603/ngc-791/

NGC 1859 was discovered by John Herschel on the 3rd December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t55780624/ngc-1859/

NGC 1961 was discovered William Herschel on the 3rd December 1788.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43022471/ngc-1961/

NGC 2193 was discovered by John Herschel on the 3rd December 1834.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t61276670/ngc-2193/

NGC 2366 was discovered by William Herschel on the 3rd December 1788.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t49093324/ngc-2366/

NGC 2509 was discovered by William Herschel on the 3rd December 1783.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t61276564/ngc-2509/

NGC 2787 was discovered by William Herschel on the 3rd December 1788.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t61276512/ngc-2787/

NGC 7686 was discovered by William Herschel on the 3rd December 1787.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t55780693/ngc-7686/

Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory on 3 December 1904
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalia_%28moon%29

Main-belt binary asteroid (5474) Gingasen was discovered by Tetsuya Fujii and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami on December 3, 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5474_Gingasen

On 3 December 2013, scientists reported detecting water in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-17b.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-17b

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SMS messaging was used for the first time was on 3 December 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_message#History

Dune is a 1984 science fiction film that premiered on December 3, 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(film)

Georges Claude presented neon tube lighting at the Paris Motor Show from December 3-18, 1910.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_lighting

The Phoenicids meteor shower was first observed on 3 December 1887.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(constellation)#Meteor_showers

Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajduáková was independently discovered by astronomers Minoru Honda, Antonin Mrkos and L'udmila Pajduáková on the 3rd December 1948.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45P/Honda%E2%80%93Mrkos%E2%80%93Pajdu%C5%A1%C3%A1kov%C3%A1

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Meteorites

The Strathmore (L6) meteorite fell in Scotland, on the 3rd December, 1917.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46453202/strathmore-meteorite/

The Kaidun (CR2) meteorite fell in Hadhramaut, Yemen, on the 3rd December, 1980.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46535077/kaidun-meteorite/

The Yamato 749 meteorite was found in Antarctica on the 3rd December 2000.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t61277367/yamato-749-meteorite/

A big meteor was seen in Australia on the 3rd December 2005
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t5016971/australia-meteor/