This day in History: December 03

1818

Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
1833

Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.
1910

Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement, died.
1919

French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.
1967

Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.
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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