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On This Day: December 3

Updated December 2, 2011, 1:28 PM

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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.

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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.

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On This Date

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

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.

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1927	Andy Williams, Singer, turns 84
1930	Jean-Luc Godard, Director, turns 81
1931	Jaye P. Morgan, Singer ("The Gong Show"), turns 80
1941	Mary Alice, Actress, turns 70
1948	Ozzy Osbourne, Rock singer (Black Sabbath), turns 63
1960	Daryl Hannah, Actress, turns 51
1968	Brendan Fraser, Actor ("The Mummy" films), turns 43
1973	Bruno Campos, Actor, turns 38
1973	Holly Marie Combs, Actress ("Charmed"), turns 38
1980	Anna Chlumsky, Actress ("My Girl" movies), turns 31

Historic Birthdays

Anna Freud12/3/1895 - 10/9/1982Austrian/English psychoanalyst.Go to obituary »

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