TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Dec. 3, 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.

ON THIS DATE

1947

The Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.

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.

1979

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