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.

1979

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

2017

The second-largest U.S. drugstore chain, CVS, announced that it was buying Aetna, the third-largest health insurer, in order to push much deeper into customer care.