HISTORY QUIZ OF THE DAY (Dec-03)

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Dec 3, 1984 :: BHOPAL DISASTER :: On this day, a methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed more about 10000 people and injured hundreds of thousands others in one of the worst in history.

Dec 3, 1979 :: KONKANA SEN SHARMA :: Born this day, she is an Indian .

Dec 3, 1973 :: PIONEER 10 :: On this day, it sent back the first close-up images of .

Dec 3, 1967 :: On this day, at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a doctors' team carried out the first on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

Dec 3, 1944 :: GREEK CIVIL WAR :: It broke out on this day in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and .

Dec 3, 1942 :: Peter C. SCHULTZ :: Born this day, he was an American Ceramist, who made the , capable of carrying 65,000 times more information than the conventional copper wire.

Dec 3, 1937 :: THE DANDY :: The UK's comic, was first published on this day.

Dec 3, 1937 :: BINOD Bihari VERMA :: Born this day, he is an Indian .

Dec 3, 1912 :: BALKAN LEAGUE :: On this day, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) signed an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First .

Dec 3, 1912 :: PRUDENTE Jose de Morais BARROS :: Died this day, he was the President of .

Dec 3, 1900 :: RICHARD KUHN :: Born this day, he was the biochemist and a Nobel laureate.

Dec 3, 1899 :: IKEDA HAYATO :: Born this day, he was the Prime Minister of .

Dec 3, 1889 :: KHUDIRAM Bose :: Born this day, he was he was an Indian who was hanged for his bomb attack on magistrate Kingsford.

Dec 3, 1884 :: RAJENDRA PRASAD :: Born this day, he was the first of India.

Dec 3, 1882 :: NANDLAL BOSE :: Born this day, he was an Indian .

Dec 3, 1842 :: Charles Alfred PILLSBURY :: Born this day, he was a US Flour Miller, who built the company one of the concerns in the world.

Dec 3, 1533 :: VASILI III :: Died this day, he was the Grand Prince of .