On This Day in History December 3, 2018

Historical Events 1586  Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia 1854  Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences 1984  Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured 1989  Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over More Historical Events Famous Birthdays George McClellan (1826 - 1885) Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) Julianne Moore 57th Birthday Ozzy Osbourne 70th Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Diocletian ( - 311) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) More Famous Deaths December 1st: How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song How did an English publisher most famous for giving the world Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management come to publish the first Sherlock Holmes story?