Friday, December 3, 2010

International Day of Disabled Persons 2010

Today is the 337th day of the year. There are 28 days remaining until the end of the year (22 days till Christmas). If your birthday is today, you are a Sagittarius.

Since 1992, the United Nations has proclaimed December 3rd as a day to observe efforts to promote integration of the disabled into general society.

On December 3, 1818, Illinois became the twenty-first state.

On December 3, 1967, a South African surgeon, Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the world's first heart transplantation.

On December 3, 1984, a leak of deadly gas (methyl isocyanate) at a Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 4,000 persons and injured more than 200,000.

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