历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-12-03(在线收听) |
December 3rd, 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, perform the first human heart transplant. The patient Louis Washkansky lives 18 days with his new heart. 1984, a horrific industrial accident kills thousands of people in Bhopal, India. That’s where a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escapes from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary. Investigators later conclude operating and safety procedures at the understaffed plant caused the disaster. 1964, aside the time’s over changing as police arrest some 800 students at the University of California at Berkeley. The day before students storm the campus administration building, staging a massive sit-in, Mario Savio was with the Student Free Speech Movement.
“…So you got to make it stop. And you got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” 1947, Stella in New York, actor Marlon Brando hits the big time as "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway. Brando reprises his role as Stanley Kowalski in the movie version of the play a few years later.
And in 1948, Rock Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne was born. Today in History, December 3rd. Tom Belmont, the Associated Press. |
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