TODAY in HISTORY: DECEMBER 03

A Somali journalist wounded in an explosion at Hotel Shamo is assisted by nurses outside Madina hospital in Mogadishu December 3, 2009. An explosion tore through a graduation ceremony at the hotel on Thursday and killed at least 14 people including three government ministers, witnesses and senior government sources said. REUTERS

 

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Dec 3

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1912 – Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro signed an armistice ending the first Balkan War.

1919 – French Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir died.

1984 – A gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed at least 3,000 people and disabled thousands.

1989 – The leader of East Germany’s Communist Party, Egon Krenz, and the entire party hierarchy voted themselves out of office.

1993 – Britain’s Princess Diana said she was bowing out of the public spotlight because she wanted privacy and time to herself.

1996 – Former Afghan communist leader Babrak Karmal, who personified the Kremlin’s ill-fated 9-year intervention in Afghanistan, died in Moscow.

1999 – A Croatian court ruled that ailing president Franjo Tudjman was unfit to rule, and handed power to parliamentary speaker Vlatko Pavletic.

2000 – Australian cricket team set a new world record with 12 consecutive test wins.

2004 – Pakistan and India agreed to reopen a rail link severed nearly 40 years earlier between Munabao in Rajasthan state and Khokrapar in southern Pakistan.

2009 – Explosion at Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu kills at least 14 people.

2010 – Nissan launches the world’s first electric car to be mass marketed.

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