December 3 Historical Events

The following events took place on December 3. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 40 events. Showing 31 - 40.

• 1994
  The PlayStation was released in Japan
• 1997
  In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
• 1999
  NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
• 1999
  Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 2005
  XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
• 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 several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
• 2009
  A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
• 2012
  At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
• 2012
  In Northern Ireland, 15 police officers are injured during rioting at Belfast City Hall following a vote to change Belfast City Council’s policy on flying the union flag.
• 2014
  The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to a asteroid to collect rock samples.