December 3

1170  Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, 52, returned to England after six years of exile in France. (Becket would be martyred on December 29th of this year killed by soldiers sent by his former friend, English King Henry II.)

1557  1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form.

1586  Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Columbia.

1621  Galilao perfects the telescope.

1868  Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury.

1894  Robert Louis Stevenson English writer (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 45.

1902  Birth of Mitsuo Fuchida, the pilot who flew the lead plane in Japan's air attack on Pearl Harbor (12/7/1941). Following WWII, through reprentatives of the Pocket Testament League, Fuchida was converted to Christianity in 1950.

1910  Mary Baker Eddy founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies.

1920  Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty.

1931  Alka Seltzer goes on sale.

1950  Paul Harvey begins his national  radio broadcast.

1967  1st human heart ttransplant performed (Dr. Christiaan Barnard, South Africa).

1968  Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to arm pits, to help hitters.

1984  2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal , India.