3 December It Happened Today

1552  Death of the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier.

1828  Andrew Jackson wins US presidential election.

1926  British novelist Agatha Christie disappears from her Surrey home.

1967  Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the world’s first successful human heart transplant in a Cape Town hospital.

1984  Worst ever industrial accident at a chemical plant in Bhopal, India.  More than 3000 dead and hundreds of thousands injured.