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Britannica On This Day December 3 2023
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Britannica On This Day December 3 2023
by Paul Sun 03 Dec 2023, 7:48 am
This Day in History: December 3
1984
Gas leak in Bhopal, India
On this day in 1984, a gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, spread over a populated area, resulting ultimately in 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and leaving some half million survivors with chronic medical ailments.
Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images News/Thinkstock
2000
Gwendolyn Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who spoke of and to the everyday struggles and triumphs of African Americans, died in Chicago.Read our list of 10 Chicago writers
[size=11]The Contemporary Forum[/size]
1967
Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the first human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.Test your knowledge of famous doctors
[size=11]AP[/size]
1947
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway, starring Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Marlon Brando; the latter two appeared in the 1951 film adaptation.Take our history of theatre quiz
[size=11]
1951 Warner Brothers, Inc.; photograph from a private collection[/size]
1895
Anna Freud, a founder of child psychoanalysis and one of its foremost practitioners, was born in Vienna.Take our Psychology 101 quiz
[size=11]Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin[/size]
1857
English writer Joseph Conrad, whose notable works included the novel Lord Jim (1900) and the novella Heart of Darkness (1902), was born.Test your knowledge of famous novels and novelists
[size=11]New York Public Library[/size]
1854
After hastily constructing a fortification and barricading themselves inside, miners (“diggers”) working in the Eureka goldfield in Victoria, Australia, opened fire on government forces surrounding the stockade, the culmination of long-standing grievances on the part of the diggers.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Australia
[size=11]Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney (Call no. SSV2B/Ball/7. Dgital order no. a928052)[/size]
1818
Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the United States of America.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about U.S. states
[size=11]Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.[/size]
1721
German composer Johann Sebastian Bach married his second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcken, the daughter of a trumpeter at Weissenfels.How much do you know about classical composers?
1552
St. Francis Xavier, the leading Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, died of fever off the coast of China.Test your knowledge of the history of Roman Catholicism
[size=11] Juha Sompinmäki/Shutterstock.com[/size]
Gilbert Stuart
American painter
BornDecember 3, 1755
Saunderstown, Rhode Island
(Born on this day)
DiedJuly 9, 1828 (aged 72)
Boston, Massachusetts
Sean Parker
American entrepreneur
Julianne Moore
American actress
Ozzy Osbourne
British musician
Jean-Luc Godard
French director
Rajendra Prasad
president of India
Featured Event
1984
Gas leak in Bhopal, India
On this day in 1984, a gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, spread over a populated area, resulting ultimately in 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and leaving some half million survivors with chronic medical ailments.
Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images News/Thinkstock
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2000
Gwendolyn Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who spoke of and to the everyday struggles and triumphs of African Americans, died in Chicago.Read our list of 10 Chicago writers
[size=11]The Contemporary Forum[/size]
1967
Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the first human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.Test your knowledge of famous doctors
[size=11]AP[/size]
1947
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway, starring Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Marlon Brando; the latter two appeared in the 1951 film adaptation.Take our history of theatre quiz
[size=11]
1951 Warner Brothers, Inc.; photograph from a private collection[/size]1895
Anna Freud, a founder of child psychoanalysis and one of its foremost practitioners, was born in Vienna.Take our Psychology 101 quiz
[size=11]Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin[/size]
1857
English writer Joseph Conrad, whose notable works included the novel Lord Jim (1900) and the novella Heart of Darkness (1902), was born.Test your knowledge of famous novels and novelists
[size=11]New York Public Library[/size]
1854
After hastily constructing a fortification and barricading themselves inside, miners (“diggers”) working in the Eureka goldfield in Victoria, Australia, opened fire on government forces surrounding the stockade, the culmination of long-standing grievances on the part of the diggers.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Australia
[size=11]Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney (Call no. SSV2B/Ball/7. Dgital order no. a928052)[/size]
1818
Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the United States of America.Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about U.S. states
[size=11]Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.[/size]
1721
German composer Johann Sebastian Bach married his second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcken, the daughter of a trumpeter at Weissenfels.How much do you know about classical composers?
1552
St. Francis Xavier, the leading Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, died of fever off the coast of China.Test your knowledge of the history of Roman Catholicism
[size=11]
Juha Sompinmäki/Shutterstock.com[/size]Featured Biography
Gilbert Stuart
American painter
BornDecember 3, 1755
Saunderstown, Rhode Island
(Born on this day)
DiedJuly 9, 1828 (aged 72)
Boston, Massachusetts
1979
Sean Parker
American entrepreneur
1960
Julianne Moore
American actress
1948
Ozzy Osbourne
British musician
1930
Jean-Luc Godard
French director
1884
Rajendra Prasad
president of India
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