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.