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Today in History: Thursday, December\u00a0 03, 2015<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn 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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1818<\/td>\nIllinois was admitted to the union as the 21st state.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1828<\/td>\nAndrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/td>\n“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1948<\/td>\nThe 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1964<\/td>\nPolice 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/td>\nThe album “Rubber Soul” by the Beatles was released.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\nSurgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\nThe 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1979<\/td>\nEleven people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum before a rock concert by the Who.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nEast German Communist leader Egon Krenz, the ruling Politburo and the party’s Central Committee resigned.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nSouth Korea struck a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $55 billion bailout of its foundering economy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nScientists failed to make contact with the Mars Polar Lander after it began its fiery descent toward the red planet; the spacecraft was presumed destroyed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nComcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51 percent controlling stake in NBC Universal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Highlights of This Day in History<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Julianne Moore turns 55 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jean-Luc Godard<\/td>\nDirector<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jaye P. Morgan<\/td>\nSinger (“The Gong Show”)<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Alice<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ozzy Osbourne<\/td>\nRock singer (Black Sabbath)<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daryl Hannah<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brendan Fraser<\/td>\nActor (“The Mummy” films)<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bruno Campos<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Holly Marie Combs<\/td>\nActress (“Charmed”)<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anna Chlumsky<\/td>\nActress (“My Girl” movies)<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia,” “Big Love”) turns 30 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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