December 03
1818
Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
1833
Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
1910
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
1919
French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
1967
Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant.
1984
A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.
Birthdays
Joseph Conrad
1857–1924, English Novelist
Gilbert Stuart
painter (1755)
Ellen Swallow Richards
chemist and educator (1842)
Anna Freud
psychoanalyst (1895)
Jean-Luc Godard
film director (1930)
Ozzy Osbourne
rock musician (1948)
Julianne Moore
actress (1960)
Katarina Witt
skater (1965)
Brendan Fraser
actor (1968)