December 3 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for December 3
In the headlines today:

1999	NASA scientists lose contact with the Mars Polar Lander as it heads towards the Martian surface.
1999	Actress Madeline Kahn dies at age 57.
1994	AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, infected with HIV from a blood transfusion, dies in Santa Monica, California, at age 47.
1990	Eight people die when a pair of jetliners collide on the ground at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport.
1984	More than 4,000 die and over 200,000 people are injured from a gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India (the world's worst industrial accident).
1979	Eleven people are killed when fans stampede during a concert by The Who at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum.
1967	Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world's first successful heart transplant at Cape Town, South Africa. The recipient of the new heart, Louis Washkansky, survived 18 days.
1960	The musical Camelot debuts on Broadway.
1953	The musical Kismet opens on Broadway.
1947	Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire makes its Broadwayy debut.
1922	The Toll of the Sea becomes the first successful Technicolor motion picture, screened at the Rialto Theatre in New York City.
1883	The first coed higher education institution in the US, Oberlin College, begins classes in Ohio.
1828	Andrew Jackson is elected US president.
1818	Illinois becomes the 21st state to join the US.