About the day » Saturday December 3, 1977Calender converter

• Rick (R.H.B.) Hulshof, Brunssum (L)

• (66), Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Bernardus Marinus Cornelis Vervoorn (0)
• Anna Maria Oostvogels (71), Zundert
• Belmont Levy Hatch (78), New Vineyard, Franklin, Maine, United States
• Arley Naomi "Omie" Anderson (86), Wilkesboro, Wilkes, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Schalley (86), Bree, Provincie Limburg, België
• Christiaan Roelofs (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Clarence Coolbaugh Sr. (72), Riverside, California
• Adrianus Jacobus van der Hoorn (80)
• Anna Maria Adriana Wolsky (76), Tilburg

• 1976 » Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 » Cornelius Griffin, American football player
• 1976 » Gary Glover, American baseball player
• 1976 » Mark Boucher, South African cricketer
• 1976 » Tomotaka Okamoto, Japanese soprano
• 1977 » Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper and race car driver
• 1977 » Chad Durbin, American baseball player
• 1977 » Troy Evans, American football player
• 1977 » Yelena Zadorozhnaya, Russian runner
• 1978 » Trina, American rapper and producer

• 1967 » Harry Wismer, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1972 » William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (b. 1872)
• 1973 » Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico, 1952-1958 (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Emile Christian, American trombonist, cornet player, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1979 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Oswald Mosley, English lieutenant, fascist, and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Walter Knott, American farmer, founded Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Connie B. Gay, American businessman, founded the Country Music Association (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Fernando Martín Espina, Spanish basketball player (b. 1962)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Johannes
4. Martijn
5. Peter
6. Richard
7. Mark
8. Michael
9. Robert
10. David
11. Hendrik
12. Pieter
13. Dennis
14. Marcel
15. Cornelis
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Esther
4. Johanna
5. Sandra
6. Wendy
7. Cindy
8. Linda
9. Yvonne
10. Jennifer
11. Patricia
12. Anna
13. Bianca
14. Elisabeth
15. Adriana
16. Jessica

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.8 million citizens.
• January 3 » Apple Computer is incorporated.
• March 24 » Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
• April 21 » Annie opens on Broadway.
• April 28 » The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
• May 9 » Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
• June 13 » Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

The temperature on December 3, 1977 was between -4.2 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.