Páginas

sábado, 3 de diciembre de 2011

En este día...


ON THIS DAY

On This Day: December 3

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

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1818Illinois was admitted to the union as the 21st state.
1828Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States.
1947"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1948The 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.
1964Police 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.
1965The album "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles was released.
1967Surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
1967The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.
1979Eleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by the Who.
1989East German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party's Central Committee resigned.
1997South Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.
1999Scientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed.
2009Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal.

Current Birthdays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Julianne Moore, Actress
Actress Julianne Moore turns 51 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
Amanda Seyfried, Actress (“Mamma Mia,” “Big Love”)
Actress Amanda Seyfried ("Mamma Mia," "Big Love") turns 26 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
1927Andy Williams, Singer, turns 84
1930Jean-Luc Godard, Director, turns 81
1931Jaye P. Morgan, Singer ("The Gong Show"), turns 80
1941Mary Alice, Actress, turns 70
1948Ozzy Osbourne, Rock singer (Black Sabbath), turns 63
1960Daryl Hannah, Actress, turns 51
1968Brendan Fraser, Actor ("The Mummy" films), turns 43
1973Bruno Campos, Actor, turns 38
1973Holly Marie Combs, Actress ("Charmed"), turns 38
1980Anna Chlumsky, Actress ("My Girl" movies), turns 31

Historic Birthdays

72Gilbert Stuart 12/3/1755 - 7/9/1828
American portrait painter
58George Brinton McClellan 12/3/1826 - 10/29/1885
American general
77Cleveland Abbe 12/3/1838 - 10/28/1916
American meteorologist
73Octavia Hill 12/3/1838 - 8/13/1912
English activist and leader of the British open-space movement
56Charles Alfred Pillsbury 12/3/1842 - 9/17/1899
American flour miller and food products manufacturer
68Ellen Swallow Richards 12/3/1842 - 3/30/1911
American chemist
66Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924
English novelist
86Carl Koller 12/3/1857 - 3/21/1944
Czech-born American eye surgeon
61Anton von Werbern 12/3/1883 - 9/15/1945
Austrian composer
65Hayato Ikeda 12/3/1899 - 8/13/1965
Japanese prime minister (1960-4)
66Richard Kuhn 12/3/1900 - 8/1/1967
German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
53John von Neumann 12/3/1903 - 2/8/1957
Hungarian-American mathematician

No hay comentarios:

Publicar un comentario