What happened on 3 December?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1979 Khomeini's supreme leadership of Iran Founded and led the Islamic Republic through the hostage crisis and eight years of war with Iraq.
2. 1868 William Gladstone's first premiership Gladstone's great reforming ministry: the secret ballot, the Education Act and the disestablishment of the Irish Church.
3. 1930 Born: Jean-Luc Godard French-Swiss filmmaker and a leading figure of the French New Wave; director of Breathless.
4. 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Liberates Bangladesh from Pakistan after the genocidal crackdown in East Pakistan.
5. 1984 Bhopal gas disaster Methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide plant kills thousands and injures many more.
6. 1967 First heart transplant Christiaan Barnard performs the first human-to-human heart transplant.
7. 1997 South Korea's IMF crisis The Asian financial crisis forces Seoul into a record $58 billion IMF bailout; mass layoffs and gold-collection drives make 'the IMF era' a national trauma.
8. 1854 Eureka Stockade Gold miners rebel against colonial authority at Ballarat, often seen as a foundational episode of Australian democracy.
9. 1884 Born: Rajendra Prasad First President of India.
10. 1994 Sony PlayStation launched Sony's console brings 3D gaming to the mainstream and reshapes the video-game industry around CDs and adult audiences.
11. 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire premieres Tennessee Williams's play opens on Broadway, a landmark of American theatre and of Method acting via Marlon Brando.
12. 1857 Born: Joseph Conrad Polish-British novelist of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim.
13. 1952 Kapenguria trial On thin and partly perjured evidence, Kenyatta and five others are convicted of managing Mau Mau and sentenced to seven years' hard labour — making him the nationalist hero.
14. 1926 Agatha Christie's disappearance Christie vanishes for eleven days, her car abandoned near a Surrey quarry; a nationwide manhunt finds her at a Harrogate hotel, registered under her husband's mistress's surname.