Albuquerque Journal

TODAY IN HISTORY

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TODAY IS MONDAY, DEC. 3, the 337th day of 2018. Twenty-eight days are left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY: On this date in 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.

In 1818, Illinois was admitted as the 21st state.

In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.

In 1833, Oberlin College in Ohio — the first truly coeducatio­nal school of higher learning in the United States — began holding classes.

In 1926, English mystery writer Agatha Christie, 36, disappeare­d after driving away from her home in Sunningdal­e, Berkshire. Christie turned up 11 days later at a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire.

In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.

In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administra­tion building and staged a massive sit-in.

In 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the donor organ, which came from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old bank clerk who died in a traffic accident.

In 1979, 11 people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.

In 1980, Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the radical Weather Undergroun­d, surrendere­d to authoritie­s in Chicago after more than a decade as

a fugitive.

In 1991, radicals in Lebanon released American hostage Alann Steen, who had been held captive nearly five years.

In 1992, the first telephone text message was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth, who transmitte­d the greeting “Merry Christmas” from his work computer in Newbury, Berkshire, to Vodafone executive Richard Jarvis’ mobile phone. The Greek tanker Aegean Sea spilled more than 21 million gallons of crude oil when it ran aground off northweste­rn Spain.

In 1999, Tori Murden of the United States became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone when she arrived at the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, 81 days after leaving the Canary Islands near the coast of Africa.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Movie director Jean-Luc Godard is 88. Singer Jaye P. Morgan is 87. Actor Nicolas Coster is 85. Actress Mary Alice is 77. Rock singer Ozzy Osbourne is 70. Rock singer Mickey Thomas is 69. Country musician Paul Gregg (Restless Heart) is 64. Actor Steven Culp is 63. Actresses Daryl Hannah and Julianne Moore are 58. Olympic gold medal figure skater Katarina Witt is 53. Actor Brendan Fraser and singer Montell Jordan are 50. Actor Royale Watkins is 49. Actor Bruno Campos and actress Holly Marie Combs are 45. Actresses Liza Lapira and Lauren Roman are 43. Pop-rock singer Daniel Bedingfiel­d and actress/ comedian Tiffany Haddish are 39. Actresses Anna Chlumsky and Jenna Dewan are 38. Actor Brian Bonsall is 37. Actress Dascha Polanco is 36. Pop/rock singer-songwriter Andy Grammer is 35. Americana musician Michael Calabrese (Lake Street Dive) is 34. Actress Amanda Seyfried is 33. Actor Michael Angarano is 31. Actor Jake T. Austin is 24.

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