@rh18bold:Today in History

Today is Thursday, December 3, the 337th day of 2009. There are 28 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1901, the American inventor King Camp Gillette applied for the patent for the first safety razor, which had a double-edged disposable blade.

In 1910, a neon lamp developed by the French physicist Georges Claude was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show.

In 1984, at least 3,000 people died and thousands injured after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide pesticide subsidiary near Bhopal, India.

Thought for Today

"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means." — Lydia Maria Child, American author (1802-1880).