December 3rd History, Trivia, and Fun FactsTable of Contents |
December 3rd History Highlights |
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December 3rd is… |
Disability Day International Spirit of the Game Day Let’s Hug Day Make A Gift Day National Green Bean Casserole Day |
December 3rd Birthday Quotes |
“All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity – it is to destroy it.” “I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren’t funny.” “I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” “My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel- it is, before all, to make you see. That- and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm- all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.” “I’m good with getting older because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself.” |
December 3rd Birthdays |
1755 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter, unfinished George Washington (died in 1828) 1857 – Joseph Conrad, Polish writer (died in 1924) 1907 – Connee Boswell, American jazz singer (died in 1976) 1927 – Andy Williams, American singer (died in 2012) 1930 – Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss director 1931 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer and game show regular 1937 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter 1952 – Benny Hinn, Israeli-American evangelist 1960 – Daryl Hannah, American actress 1960 – Julianne Moore, American Actress 1963 – Terri Schiavo, American medical patient (died in 2005) 1965 – Katarina Witt, German figure skater 1968 – Brendan Fraser, American actor 1968 – Montell Jordan, American singer-songwriter 1973 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress 1980 – Anna Chlumsky, American actress 1980 – Jenna Dewan, American actress, and dancer 1983 – Andy Grammer, American singer 1985 – Amanda Seyfried, American actress |
December 3rd History |
856 (Earthquake) Tunisia 1818 – Illinois became the 21st US state. 1910 – The neon light was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show at the Grand Palace. The lamp was developed by French inventor Georges Claude. Advertising neon signs started showing up in 1913, notably at the Paris Opera House. The most famous neon sign is probably the Las Vegas sign. 1919 – The Quebec Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy (near Quebec City) and Lévis, Quebec opened. 1922 – The first public Technicolor motion picture film, The Toll of the Sea, was released at the Rialto Theatre, in New York City. 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, was released. 1947 – A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway. 1960 – The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. 1966 – #1 Hit December 3, 1966 – December 9, 1966: The New Vaudeville Band – Winchester Cathedral 1976 – An assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley. Shot twice, he quickly recovered. 1979 – Eleven people were killed in a stampede at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum prior to an appearance by The Who. “Festival Seating’ was pretty much to blame – thousands of people had ‘first come, first seated’ tickets, and a soundcheck made many think the concert had already begun. 1984 – The Bhopal-Union Carbide disaster in India killed over 4,000 people, and injured hundreds of thousands. 1988 – #1 Hit December 3, 1988 – December 9, 1988: Will to Power – Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird Medley 1992 – The Greek oil tanker the Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tons of crude oil, ran aground in a storm while approaching A Coruna, Spain, spilling most of the oil. 1994 – #1 Hit December 3, 1994 – December 16, 1994: Boyz II Men – On Bended Knee 1997 – 121 countries signed the treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines in Ottawa, Canada. Notable exceptions were: The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Russia. 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander crashed into the Martian surface. 2010 – The Black Swan was released in theaters. 2012 (Typhoon) At least 475 people were killed after Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the Philippines. |
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts |
“The truth is protected by a battalion of lies” – Joseph Stalin In the King Kong movies, they find King Kong on an island that also has dinosaurs on it, and yet they choose not to bring back any dinosaurs for some reason. Truman Capote – Real Name: Truman Streckfus Persons Streckfus The Scary Statistic: Air Travel Accident odds: 1-in-20,000 Always and Never are two words to always remember never to use. The Beatles album cover for HELP does not spell out HELP in flag semaphore. It is NUVJ because the photographer thought it looked better. The Capital of Brazil is Brasilia The eleven points of the maple leaf of the Canadian flag have no special significance: the number and arrangement of the points were chosen after wind tunnel tests and the chosen pattern is the least blurred under high winds. TV Quotes… “You’ve got spunk… I hate spunk!” (Lou Grant) on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” William Shakespeare was married under the name “William Shagspere”. The term “junkie” comes from the fact that heroin users in the early 1900s would collect (often steal) and sell scrap metal to pay for their heroin. How come we never hear about anything else Lord Voldemort did except supposedly killing Harry Potter’s parents? #mysterytome Day 12: I haven’t eaten apple in almost two weeks. The doctors are slowly getting thru the barricade. It won’t be long now. Tell my family I love them… The song Fly Me to the Moon was the first music ever played on the Moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette tape. |
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