January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death December 3, 1924
The temperature on December 3, 1924 was between 6.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
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