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1984: Gas leak in Bhopal, India.On this day in 1984, a gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, spread over a populated area, resulting ultimately in 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and leaving some half million survivors with chronic medical ailments.More events on this day2001:The U.S. military announced that one of the last 80 Taliban prisoners who had surrendered on December 1 after the November uprising at a prison in Maz¨¡r-e Shar¨©f, Afghanistan, was a U.S. citizen, John Walker Lindh. |
1967:Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the first human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. |
1895:Anna Freud, a founder of child psychoanalysis and one of its foremost practitioners, was born in Vienna. |
1861:In a battle during the American Civil War, Federal troops ousted the Confederates from Salem, Missouri. |
1854:After hastily constructing a fortification and barricading themselves inside, miners (“diggers”) working in the Eureka goldfield in Victoria, Australia, opened fire on government forces surrounding the stockade, the culmination of long-standing grievances on the part of the diggers. |
1818:Illinois was admitted as the 21st state of the United States of America. |
1721:German composer Johann Sebastian Bach married his second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcken, daughter of a trumpeter at Weissenfels. |
1552:St. Francis Xavier, the leading Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, died of fever off the coast of China. |
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