Updated December 2, 2011, 1:28 PM
On Dec. 3, 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.
On Dec. 3, 1895, Anna Freud, the Austrian-born psychologist who pioneered the field of child psychoanalysis, was born. Following her death on Oct. 9, 1982, her obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
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| 1818 | Illinois was admitted to the union as the 21st state. |
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| 1828 | Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States. |
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| 1947 | "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway. |
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| 1948 | The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm. |
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| 1964 | Police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley who had stormed the administration buildingthe previous day and staged a massive sit-in. |
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| 1965 | The album "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles was released. |
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| 1967 | Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant. |
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| 1967 | The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago. |
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| 1979 | Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by the Who. |
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| 1989 | East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee resigned. |
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| 1997 | South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy. |
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| 1999 | Scientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed. |
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| 2009 | Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal. |
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Current Birthdays
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Actress Julianne Moore turns 51 years old today.
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Actress Amanda Seyfried ("Mamma Mia," "Big Love") turns 26 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
| 1927 | Andy Williams, Singer, turns 84 |
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| 1930 | Jean-Luc Godard, Director, turns 81 |
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| 1931 | Jaye P. Morgan, Singer ("The Gong Show"), turns 80 |
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| 1941 | Mary Alice, Actress, turns 70 |
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| 1948 | Ozzy Osbourne, Rock singer (Black Sabbath), turns 63 |
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| 1960 | Daryl Hannah, Actress, turns 51 |
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| 1968 | Brendan Fraser, Actor ("The Mummy" films), turns 43 |
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| 1973 | Bruno Campos, Actor, turns 38 |
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| 1973 | Holly Marie Combs, Actress ("Charmed"), turns 38 |
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| 1980 | Anna Chlumsky, Actress ("My Girl" movies), turns 31 |
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Historic Birthdays
| 72 | Gilbert Stuart 12/3/1755 - 7/9/1828
American portrait painter |
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| 58 | George Brinton McClellan 12/3/1826 - 10/29/1885
American general |
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| 77 | Cleveland Abbe 12/3/1838 - 10/28/1916
American meteorologist |
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| 73 | Octavia Hill 12/3/1838 - 8/13/1912
English activist and leader of the British open-space movement |
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| 56 | Charles Alfred Pillsbury 12/3/1842 - 9/17/1899
American flour miller and food products manufacturer |
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| 68 | Ellen Swallow Richards 12/3/1842 - 3/30/1911
American chemist |
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| 66 | Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924
English novelist |
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| 86 | Carl Koller 12/3/1857 - 3/21/1944
Czech-born American eye surgeon |
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| 61 | Anton von Werbern 12/3/1883 - 9/15/1945
Austrian composer |
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| 65 | Hayato Ikeda 12/3/1899 - 8/13/1965
Japanese prime minister (1960-4) |
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| 66 | Richard Kuhn 12/3/1900 - 8/1/1967
German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner |
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| 53 | John von Neumann 12/3/1903 - 2/8/1957
Hungarian-American mathematician |
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Anna Freud12/3/1895 - 10/9/1982Austrian/English psychoanalyst.Go to obituary »
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