WHAT HAPPENED ON 3. DECEMBER
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Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. (3. December 1973)

An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but will play a concert only two days later. (3. December 1976)

In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert. (3. December 1979)

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran. (3. December 1979)

A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. (3. December 1982)

Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. (3. December 1984)

Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end. (3. December 1989)

At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing seven passengers and one crew member aboard flight 1482. (3. December 1990)

UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia. (3. December 1992)

The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo. (3. December 1992)

A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague. (3. December 1992)

In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however. (3. December 1997)

NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. (3. December 1999)

Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts. (3. December 1999)

XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California. (3. December 2005)

Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods. (3. December 2007)

A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government. (3. December 2009)

At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha, makes landfall in the Philippines. (3. December 2012)