Encyclopędia Britannica Online Daily ContentEncyclopędia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history.http://www.britannica.com/?source=RSSOTDen-usCopyright © 2005 Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc.http://www.britannica.com/bcom/images/ebol04_hdr_logo.gifEncyclopędia Britannica Onlinehttp://www.britannica.com/?source=RSSOTDSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.comGas leak in Bhopal, India: 3 December 1984 - This Day in Historyhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9397124&source=RSSOTD#eventHistoryBritannicaOn 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.

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1967: Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the first human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.

1861: In a battle during the American Civil War, Federal troops ousted the Confederates from Salem, Missouri.

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.

]]>http://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9397124&event=all#eventGilbert Stuart: Biography of the Dayhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9397124&source=RSSOTD#bioBiographyBritannicaGilbert Stuart

American painter Gilbert Stuart, born this day in 1755, was one of his era's great portraitists, renowned for his portrait of George Washington and praised for his brushwork, luminous colouring, and psychological penetration.

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