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3 rd December 2010

3 rd December 2010. Events [1]….

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3 rd December 2010

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  1. 3rd December 2010 Mic Porter

  2. Events [1]… 1910 – Georges Claude demonstrates neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show (3-16) – a new form of advertising/light pollution is commercialised! Among the show was the Peugeot 105 (launched 2 years earlier), available in various versions including “sport”. Its 11.1 litre six-cylinder engine produced 60hp and via the chain drive the vehicle could reach 100km/h (60mph). Impressive? Well I’m impressed! 1929 – US President Herbert Hoover announces to Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash have passed and that the American people have regained faith in the economy. Mic Porter

  3. Events [2]… 1964 –Police arrest 800+ University of California students (Berkeley Free Speech Movement) following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building. A protest against the University’s decision to forbid protests and political actions on University property. 1967 – Christiaan Barnard’s team carries out the first heart transplant on Louis Washkansky(53) at Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital. The donor, Denise Darvall (25), was in a car accident. The operation was a success but the anti-rejection drugs used compro-mised his immune system, and he died after 18 days (double pneumonia). The heart had worked well; better drugs quickly followed improving the success rates. Mic Porter

  4. Events [3]… 1973 –Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. This one from a mere 2,584,000 Km. (NASA image) Mic Porter

  5. Events [4]… 1984 – The gas methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaks, overnight (2/3), from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 3,800 people outright and injuring c600,000 others (many die later, others are still dying). To date the worst “single event” industrial disaster/catastrophe. Poor choice of method (known possibility of exothermic reactions if water mixes with an intermediate), poorly specified plant design (including safety systems) and a lack of maintenance are among the causes identified. The adjacent shanty town accounts for the massive numbers killed/affected. Mic Porter

  6. Events [5]… 1997 – In Ottawa representatives from 121 countries sign (now 156 ratified + 2 signed). The Ottawa Treaty (formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction). Among the 39 non signatures are: Cuba, India, Israel, USA, People's Republic of China, and Russia. Current list at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Ottawa_Treaty#Non-signatory_states 2007 – UN Climate Change Conference (3 - 15) in Bali, Indonesia. Initial calls for global emissions to peak in 10/15 years and decline "well below half" of the 2000 level by 2050 (developing) and for 20-40% below 1990 levels by 2020 (developed) countries rejected; compromise "deep cuts in global emissions" Bali, arguably, nothing achieved! Mic Porter

  7. Ins… 1948 – OzzyOsbourne, singer, insurance salesman and husband of Sharon! 1952 – Mel Smith, Actor and comedian 1953 – Franz Klammer, Austrian skier 1959 – Eamonn Holmes, TV presenter from Northern Ireland 1976 – Mark Boucher, South African cricketer 2005 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway (3rd in line of succession to the Norwegian Throne – Rickhard to advise on details!) Mic Porter

  8. Outs… 1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (b. 1850) 1919 – Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (b. 1841) 1980 Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet politician and fascist. In the House of Commons (1918–31) as, successively, a Conservative, an Independent, and a Labourite. In 1932 founds the British Union of Fascists (“Blackshirts”). With followers, distributes anti-Semitic propaganda orchestrates hostile demonstrations. Interned during World War II (until 1943) with his wife, Diana Guinness, a sister of Jessica and Nancy Mitford and friend of Adolf Hitler. (b. 1896). Mic Porter

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