Friday, December 3, 2021 The 29th day of the tenth lunar month
1800 – The Battle of Hornlinden breaks out, and General Moreau defeats the Holy Roman Empire.
1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st state in the United States.
1904 — American astronomer Perlein discovers Jupiter's moon Ganymede at the Lick Observatory in California.
1907 - In his annual address to Congress, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt first proposed the use of Gengzi reparations to aid Chinese education, and this indemnity was returned to China to establish Tsinghua University.
1910 — At the Paris Motor Show, neon lights make their debut.
1944 - The Greek Civil War breaks out.
1945 – The British Vampire-I fighter achieves the first take-off and landing of a jet on an aircraft carrier.
1948 – China Merchants' passenger ship Jiangya ship accidentally hits a mine in Shanghai and sinks, killing more than 3,000 people.
1954 – The Republic of China and the United States sign the Sino-US Mutual Defense Treaty in Washington.
1961 – The GDR begins to reinforce the Berlin Wall.
1971 – War breaks out between India and Pakistan.
1972 — The American Pioneer 10 space probe flies by Jupiter and sends back close-up images of the first Jupiter to Earth.
1979— The World Radio Administrative Conference adopts a resolution to replace Greenwich Mean Time with a more precise coordinated universal time.
1984 – A cyanide leak at United Carbide's plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 2,500 people in two days.
1989 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev hold a summit in Malta to mark the end of the Cold War.
1990- The largest dictionary in Chinese history, the Hanyu Da Zidian, was published, receiving more than 56,000 characters in eight volumes.
1994—Playstation is released.
1997 -Pingyao Ancient City is included in the World Cultural Heritage List.
2003—Baidu Tieba was officially launched.
2004 — International mathematical titan Chen Shengsheng dies.
2007 – Australia formally signs the Kyoto Protocol, making the United States the only "developed country" in the world that has not signed.