12-03-2004, 04:56 AM
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December 3rd
1815 ~ Death of John Carroll - First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1854 ~ Eureka Stockade: More than twenty gold miners at Ballarat, Australia were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses. Claimed by some to be the birth of Australian democracy.
1857 ~ Birthday of Joseph Conrad, Writer,
1894 ~ Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer.
1917 ~ After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opened to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).
1919 ~ Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Painter.
1967 ~ At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, Lewis Washkansky became the first human to receive a heart transplant. The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
1970 ~ October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross was released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
1984 ~ Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 3,800 people in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1989 ~ Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev released statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end.
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