What holiday is celebrated on December 3: calendar of events

On Tuesday, December 3, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine honors the holy prophet Sophia and St. John the Silent. Andriy, Havrylo, Heorhiy, Ivan, Mykola, Sava and Fedir celebrate the Angel's Day today.

What other holidays fall on December 3, OBOZ.UA tells. As well as about historical figures born on this date and key events of the past that also occurred on the third day of December.

What holidays are celebrated on December 3

International Day of Persons with Disabilities - this date was introduced in 1992 and is intended to draw public attention to the problems of people with disabilities, protect their rights, dignity and well-being. On this day, people talk about how society benefits from the participation of such people in political, social, economic and cultural life. It also calls for humanity and compassion for each other, especially for the most vulnerable.

World Computer Graphics Day - Computer-generated pictures and videos have greatly enriched human culture. It is impossible to imagine any modern movie without at least minimal use of computer graphics.

Hug Day - a simple gesture like a hug is extremely universal. It's a way of sharing warmth when we want to comfort someone, or sharing joy, showing our love and affection. It is said that daily hugs can significantly improve a person's psychological state. It is also an ideal gesture of reconciliation. So hug someone you care about today.

Handmade Gifts Day is a special day that inspires people to create and give handmade gifts. It is celebrated on December 3 every year and emphasizes the joy of giving something personal and made with love. After all, each handmade item is unique and inimitable and full of real warmth.

World Coati Day - these funny nosed animals are cousins of raccoons. But they are much more sociable and temperamental. They are very active, constantly searching for food and spreading plant seeds. They also improve the soil by digging up the ground in search of food and fertilizing it with their waste products. And just look at that lemur-like striped tail!

Historical events on December 3

1586 - potatoes are first imported to England from Colombia.

1775 - The star-spangled banner of the United States is raised for the first time. It happened on board the ship Alfred.

1818 - Illinois became the 21st state of the United States of America.

1879 - Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated the operation of an incandescent lamp (with a carbon filament placed in a vacuum glass flask), it could burn continuously for 4 hours.

1910 - The first neon lamp, invented by French physicist Georges Claude, was demonstrated in Paris.

1912 - The Kingdom of Bulgaria, the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Serbia, and the Kingdom of Montenegro signed an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, ending the First Balkan War.

1920 - The Polish Sejm abolished the territorial separateness of Galicia. The term "Eastern Malopolska" was introduced to denote the ethnic territory of Eastern Galicia, the words "Ukrainian" and "Ukrainian" disappeared from use, and "Rusyn" and "Rusky" were introduced.

1932 - The Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR banned the trade in meat and cattle in the regions of Ukraine that evaded the meat procurement plan. The resolution was one of the reasons for the Holodomor of 1933.

1959 - The world's first nuclear-powered icebreaker, the Lenin, is commissioned in Leningrad.

1967 - South African surgeon Christian Barnard performed the world's first successful heart transplant in Cape Town.

1973 - The American Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to fly near Jupiter.

1976 - Moscow Bridge over the Dnipro River is put into operation in Kyiv. Its current name is the Northern Bridge.

1979 - A referendum in Iran approved the draft constitution of the country, which consolidated the course towards the Islamization of society: a system of Shariah justice and Islamic education was introduced, and women were now obliged to wear the veil.

1984 - one of the largest industrial disasters in history occurred: a poisonous gas leak at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 2,000 people and left 20,000 people blind.

1989 - After a two-day informal meeting, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President George H.W. Bush declare the end of the Cold War, the era of confrontation between two ideological systems.

1989 - A monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Prudentopolis, Brazil.

1991 - Reacting to the results of the All-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev said in his television speech: "The country is in danger, the Fatherland is in danger."

1991 - Ukraine's independence was recognized by the Republic of Hungary, and the Hungarian Embassy in Kyiv became the first embassy of a foreign country in Ukraine.

1991 - the KGB of the USSR was dissolved.

1992 - the first SMS message was sent.

1994 - Sony introduced the world to its first game console, the PlayStation.

1997 - The Ottawa Treaty on the Prohibition of the Use, Production, Stockpiling and Export of Anti-Personnel Mines is signed.

2002 - In Shandong province (People's Republic of China), archaeologists discovered a royal tomb from the Han Dynasty, which preserved more than a hundred figures of warriors, horses and chariots made of terracotta.

2004 - The Supreme Court of Ukraine ruled that the results of the November 21, 2004 presidential election in Ukraine were falsified (the actions of the Central Election Commission were declared illegal and the CEC protocol was invalidated).

2010 - At night, police and the Berkut special forces forcefully dismantled the tent city of protesters against the new Tax Code of Ukraine on Independence Square in Kyiv.

2012 - Typhoon Bopha hits the Philippines, killing at least 475 people.

Celebrities born on December 3

1596 - Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker, teacher of the masters Andrea Guarneri and Antonio Stradivari.

1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer, one of the forerunners of mathematical analysis, who is credited with introducing the infinity symbol.

1722 - Hryhoriy Skovoroda, prominent Ukrainian educator, poet and traveling philosopher.

1753 - Samuel Crompton, British inventor of the spinning wheel.

1755 - Gilbert Stuart, American artist. Together with the artist John Copley, he is considered the founder of American painting.

1793 - Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, famous British marine painter. The son of Irish writer, actor and sailor James Field Stanfield.

1795 - Rowland Hill, British, creator of the modern postal service. His proposals for reforming the postal service (including prepayment) led to the first postage stamp.

1820 - Thomas Beecham, inventor of laxative pills.

1830 - Frederic Leighton, British painter and sculptor.

1857 - Joseph Conrad (Józef Theodor Konrad Kożeniewski), English writer of Polish origin, born in Berdychiv, Ukraine.

1864 - Herman Heermans, Dutch writer.

1877 - Stepan Rudnytskyi, Ukrainian geographer, founder of Ukrainian scientific geography and geography of Ukraine.

1879 - Kafu Nagai, Japanese writer, playwright and memoirist. Representative of the so-called school of aesthetes in Japanese literature (novel "Rivals").

1883 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor.

1886 - Manne Sigban, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize winner.

1895 - Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, founder of child psychoanalysis.

1908 - Anna Stan, Soviet, German, American film actress of Ukrainian descent.

1911 - Nino Rota, Italian composer.

1924 - John Backus, American mathematician who created the Fortran programming language.

1927 - Andy Williams, American pop singer.

1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director and actor.

1931 - Ivan Danyliuk, Ukrainian mathematician, first director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences.

1937 - Ivan Slyota, Ukrainian choral conductor and composer, People's Artist of Ukraine.

1948 - Diane Curis, French actress and director.

1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, British rock singer, frontman of the band Black Sabbath.

1960 - Daryl Hannah and Julianne Moore, American film actresses.

1968 - Brendan Fraser, American and Canadian theater, film and television actor.

1972 - Oleh Lyashko, Ukrainian politician.

1973 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress.

1981 - David Villa, Spanish footballer.

1985 - Amanda Seyfred, American actress, singer and model.

1987 - Andriy Lyubka, popular Ukrainian poet, translator and essayist.

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