OnThisDay: December 3rd
1557 - First Covenant of Scottish protestants formed
1621 - Galileo perfected the telescope
1775 - First official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
1847 - Frederick Douglass published first issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1910 - Neon lights, first publicly seen (Paris Auto Show)
1931 - Alka Seltzer went on sale
1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast
1964 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" first aired on TV
1967 - First human heart transplant performed (Dr Christiaan Barnard, South Africa)