On This Day in History December 3 Historical Events 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia.  The battle at Eureka Stockade 1854 Eureka Stockade: 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. 1967 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnardon Louis Washkansky.  1984 Bhopal disaster: A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, officially killing 2,259 - other estimates are 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 John Wallis 1616 - 1703 Rowland Hill 1795 - 1879 George McClellan 1826 - 1885 Ozzy Osbourne 75th Birthday   More Famous Birthdays  Famous Deaths Diocletian 242 - 311 Mary Baker Eddy 1821 - 1910 More Famous Deaths