DECEMBER 3
1847:Abolitionist and former escaped slave Frederick Douglass publishes the first issue of the antislavery newspaper North Star in Rochester, N.Y.
1947: Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway, starring Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski and Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois.
1967: Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human-to-human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old grocer with congestive cardiac failure, in Cape Town, South Africa. Washkansky will die 18 days later of double pneumonia.
1947: Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway, starring Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski and Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois.
1967: Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human-to-human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old grocer with congestive cardiac failure, in Cape Town, South Africa. Washkansky will die 18 days later of double pneumonia.
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