Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 3

December 3:

• 1854 - Miners at Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria in Australia.

• 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.

• 1937 - Issue 1 of The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, went on sale.

• 1967 - A team led by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.

• 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander (pictured) reached Mars and disappeared.

Recent days: December 2 – December 1 – November 30

More anniversaries:

• November 30
• December 1
• December 2