This Day in History: December 03, 2024
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1818
Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
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1833
Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
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1910
Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
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1919
French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
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1967
Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
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1984
A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4,000 people.
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