Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 3

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 * 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces defeated Austrian and Bavarian troops at the Battle of Hohenlinden, eventually resulting in the Austrians signing the Treaty of Lunéville.
 * 1904 – Himalia, Jupiter's largest irregular moon, was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in California.
 * 1910 – Freda Du Faur (pictured) became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand.
 * 1959 – The current flag and coat of arms of Singapore was adopted, six months after the island became self-governing within the British Empire.
 * 1968 – American singer Elvis Presley's first television special and first live performance in seven years, Singer Presents ... Elvis, was broadcast by NBC.
 * 1976 – Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt by seven gunmen in Kingston.
 * 1979 – Eleven people were crushed in a human stampede at a concert by British rock band The Who in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.


 * 1994 – Sony released the PlayStation, the first computer entertainment platform to ship 100 million units.
 * 1999 – NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before it reached the atmosphere of Mars and disappeared.
 * 2009 – A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
 * Born/died: | Birinus |d.or|649; 650| Gilbert Stuart |b|1755| Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord |b|1810|  Thomas Farrell |b|1891|  Mary Baker Eddy |d|1910| Paul J. Crutzen |b|1933 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll |d|1939| Julianne Moore |b|1960