Updated December 2, 2012, 1:29 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.
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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 52 years old today.
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Actress Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia,” “Big Love”) turns 27 years old today.
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1930 Jean-Luc Godard, Director, turns 82 1931 Jaye P. Morgan, Singer (“The Gong Show”), turns 81 1941 Mary Alice, Actress, turns 71 1948 Ozzy Osbourne, Rock singer (Black Sabbath), turns 64 1960 Daryl Hannah, Actress, turns 52 1968 Brendan Fraser, Actor (“The Mummy” films), turns 44 1973 Bruno Campos, Actor, turns 39 1973 Holly Marie Combs, Actress (“Charmed”), turns 39 1980 Anna Chlumsky, Actress (“My Girl” movies), turns 32 Historic Birthdays
Anna Freud 12/3/1895 – 10/9/1982 Austrian/English psychoanalyst. Go to obituary »
72 Gilbert Stuart 12/3/1755 – 7/9/1828
American portrait painter58 George Brinton McClellan 12/3/1826 – 10/29/1885
American general77 Cleveland Abbe 12/3/1838 – 10/28/1916
American meteorologist73 Octavia Hill 12/3/1838 – 8/13/1912
English activist and leader of the British open-space movement56 Charles Alfred Pillsbury 12/3/1842 – 9/17/1899
American flour miller and food products manufacturer68 Ellen Swallow Richards 12/3/1842 – 3/30/1911
American chemist66 Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857 – 8/3/1924
English novelist86 Carl Koller 12/3/1857 – 3/21/1944
Czech-born American eye surgeon61 Anton von Werbern 12/3/1883 – 9/15/1945
Austrian composer65 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 winner53 John von Neumann 12/3/1903 – 2/8/1957
Hungarian-American mathematician
