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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47462)12/3/2004 5:57:23 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-December 3:

1901 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory.

1967 - A team headed by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, performed the first heart transplant on a human, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky.

1984 - The Bhopal gas tragedy resulted in more than 2000 killed and between 150,000 and 600,000 injured in the Indian city of Bhopal.