What day of the week was December 3, 1979?

The day of the week December 3rd, 1979 fell on was a Monday.

There were 22 days until Christmas.

Dhyan Chand the Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1905) died on this day in 1979.

In Cincinnati the Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.