Following are some of the major events to have occurred on December 03
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1912 - Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro signed an armistice ending the first Balkan War.
1919 - French Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir died.
1984 - A gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed at least 3,000 people and disabled thousands.
1989 - The leader of East Germany's Communist Party, Egon Krenz, and the entire party hierarchy voted themselves out of office.
1993 - Britain's Princess Diana said she was bowing out of the public spotlight because she wanted privacy and time to herself.
1996 - Former Afghan communist leader Babrak Karmal, who personified the Kremlin's ill-fated 9-year intervention in Afghanistan, died in Moscow.
1999 - A Croatian court ruled that ailing president Franjo Tudjman was unfit to rule, and handed power to parliamentary speaker Vlatko Pavletic.
2000 - Australian cricket team set a new world record with 12 consecutive test wins.
2004 - Pakistan and India agreed to reopen a rail link severed nearly 40 years earlier between Munabao in Rajasthan state and Khokrapar in southern Pakistan.
2009 - Explosion at Hotel Shamo in Mogadishu kills at least 14 people.
2010 - Nissan launches the world's first electric car to be mass marketed.
