On December 3rd:
1868: The treason trial of Confederate President Jefferson Davis begins. He will later be pardoned by President Andrew Johnson
1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates the light bulb for the first time
1944: Civil War breaks out in Greece
1967: The first heart transplant is performed
1971: The 3rd Indo-Pakistani war breaks out as India moves to intervene in a civil war between West and East Pakistan. The war will lead to East Pakistan's independence as Bangladesh
1984: A Union-Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaks lethal gases into the air. 8,000 die and 600,000 are hurt by the worst industrial accident in history
2001: Dean Kamen introduces the Segway
Birthdays: Samuel Crompton (1753), Sir Rowland Hill (1795), Ozzy Osbourne (1948)
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