Today, December 3, is World Computer Graphics Day. There are 28 days left before the New Year.
December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 28 days left before the end of the year.
What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
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World Computer Graphics Day.
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World Pesticide Day.
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World Skating Day.
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What happened on December 3
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1775 – The Stars and Stripes of the United States are raised for the first time.
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1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st state of the United States of America.
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1879 – Thomas Edison first demonstrated to the public the operation of an incandescent lamp, which could burn continuously for 4 hours.
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1910 – The first neon lamp is shown in Paris.
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1912 – The Bulgarian Kingdom, the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Montenegro sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire, ending the First Balkan War.
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1920 – the Polish Sejm revokes the territorial independence of Galicia.
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1967 – South African surgeon Christian Barnard performed the world’s first successful heart transplant in Cape Town.
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1973 – American Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter.
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1984 – one of the biggest industrial disasters occurred – due to a toxic gas leak at a chemical plant in Bhopal (India), more than 2,000 people died, and 20 thousand lost their sight.
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1989 – a monument to Taras Shevchenko was unveiled in the city of Prudentopolis (Brazil).
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1991 – the independence of Ukraine is recognized by the Hungarian Republic, the Hungarian Embassy in Kyiv becomes the first embassy of a foreign state in Ukraine.
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1992 – The UN General Assembly declared this day as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
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2002 – in Shandong province (People’s Republic of China), archaeologists discovered a royal burial from the Han Dynasty, where more than a hundred figures of warriors, horses and chariots made of terracotta were preserved.
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2004 – The Supreme Court of Ukraine made a decision according to which the results of the presidential elections in Ukraine on November 21, 2004 were falsified.
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2010 – at night, the police and special forces “Berkut” forcibly dismantled the tent city of protesters against the new Tax Code of Ukraine on Independence Square in Kyiv.
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2012 – Typhoon Bopha hits the Philippines, killing at least 475 people.
Who was born on December 3
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1877 – Ukrainian geographer, founder of Ukrainian scientific geography and geography of Ukraine Stepan Rudnitsky.
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1931 – Ukrainian mathematician, first director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of NASU Ivan Danilyuk.
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1937 – Ukrainian choral conductor and composer, People’s Artist of Ukraine Ivan Sleta.
What is today’s name day?: Andrey, Gavrilo, Georgy, Ivan, Nikolay, Savva, Fedor.
What not to do on December 3
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Don’t think only of material things.
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You cannot sit back and avoid work.
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Don’t write or talk too much.
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