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Anniversary on the 3rd of December 1997

Anniversary
Date Text
100 years anniversary
03 Dec 1924   John Backus: Inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
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03 Dec 1924   Wiel Coerver, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2011)
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03 Dec 1924   F. Sionil José, Filipino journalist and author
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03 Dec 1924   Roberto Mieres, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2012)
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03 Dec 1924   John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007)
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03 Dec 1924   birth
John Backus
Born 3 Dec 1924; died 28 Oct 1988 at age 63.
American computer scientist who invented the FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) programming language in the mid 1950s. He had previously developed an assembly language for IBM's 701 computer when he suggested the development of a compiler and higher level language for the IBM 704. As the first high-level computer programming language, FORTRAN was able to convert standard mathematical formulas and expressions into the binary code used by computers. Thus a non-specialist could write a program in familiar words and symbols, and different computers could use programs generated in the same language. This paved the way for other computer languages such as COBOL, ALGOL and BASIC.
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75 years anniversary
03 Dec 1949   Christopher John Seward: Aid worker
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03 Dec 1949   Mickey Thomas: Rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
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03 Dec 1949   Elin Pelin: Writer
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03 Dec 1949   Maria Ouspenskaya: Actress (Spookies), dies at 62
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03 Dec 1949   KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
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03 Dec 1949   John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
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03 Dec 1949   Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress and singer
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03 Dec 1949   Mickey Thomas, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Starship and Starship)
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03 Dec 1949   Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and educator (b. 1876)
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03 Dec 1949   birth Mickey Thomas, Jefferson Starship, (1987 UK & US No.1 single 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us').
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50 years anniversary
03 Dec 1974   Ralph Staten: Safety (Baltimore Ravens)
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03 Dec 1974   Lucette Rådström, Swedish television presenter
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25 years anniversary
03 Dec 1999   Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942)
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03 Dec 1999   Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
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03 Dec 1999   Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
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03 Dec 1999   NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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03 Dec 1999   Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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03 Dec 1999   It was reported that rapper Jay-Z had been arrested in connection with the stabbing of music executive Lance Rivera. The rapper was charged with first-degree assault.
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03 Dec 1999   U2 singer Bono had his missing laptop computer returned after losing it. A young man had bought it for £300 discovered he had the missing laptop, which contained tracks from the forthcoming U2 album.
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03 Dec 1999   Prosecutors in California charged Gabriel Gomez with the kidnapping and murder of Sandra Ann Rosas, wife of Los Lobos singer and guitarist Cesar Rosas. No body had yet been found.
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20 years anniversary
03 Dec 2004   Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
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03 Dec 2004   death
Shiing-shen Chern
Died 3 Dec 2004 at age 93 (born 26 Oct 1911).

Chinese-American mathematician and educator whose researches in differential geometry include the development of the Chern characteristic classes in fibre spaces, which play a major role in mathematics and in mathematical physics. “When Chern was working on differential geometry in the 1940s, this area of mathematics was at a low point. Global differential geometry was only beginning, even Morse theory was understood and used by a very small number of people. Today, differential geometry is a major subject in mathematics and a large share of the credit for this transformation goes to Professor Chern.”
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15 years anniversary
03 Dec 2009   Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress and journalist (b. 1959)
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03 Dec 2009   Richard Todd, Irish-English soldier and actor (b. 1919)
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03 Dec 2009   A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
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03 Dec 2009   Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood was arrested in Esher, Surrey on suspicion of assault, after a passer-by dialled 999 as a violent argument took place between Wood and his 21-year-old on-off girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova. He was later cautioned by police.
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10 years anniversary
03 Dec 2014   Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
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03 Dec 2014   Jacques Barrot, French politician, French European Commissioner (b. 1937)
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03 Dec 2014   Nathaniel Branden, Canadian–American psychotherapist and author (b. 1930)
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03 Dec 2014   Ian McLagan, English-American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Small Faces, Faces, and The New Barbarians) (b. 1945)
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03 Dec 2014   James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941)
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03 Dec 2014   The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to a asteroid to collect rock samples.
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03 Dec 2014   Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was named the most-streamed artist in the world by Spotify. The 23-year-old had racked up more than 860 million streams on the service, beating Eminem and Coldplay, who came second and third respectively. Katy Perry was the year's most streamed female artist, with Ariana Grande second and Lana Del Rey third.
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