12-03-2013, 08:48 PM
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December 3rd
1815 ~ Death of John Carroll - First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1857 ~ Birthday of Joseph Conrad, Writer.
1894 ~ Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer.
1919 ~ Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter.
1947 ~ ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1967 ~ At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Lewis Washkansky became the first human to receive a heart transplant. The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
1984 ~ Bhopal Disaster: A leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed nearly 3,000 people in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1989 ~ Formal end of the Cold War.
1999 ~ NASA lost contact with the Mars Polar Lander just before it entered the Martian atmosphere.
1999 ~ Death of Madeline Kahn, Actress & Comedian.
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