On this day: December 3

POSTED: 08:34 PM PST Dec 02, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 02, 2012 

Laurel and Hardy team up, a human heart is transplanted for the first time, an assassin targets Bob Marley, and the first text message is sent via phone, all on this day.

OTD December 3 - neon
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1910: Neon lighting, developed by French physicist Georges Claude, makes its public debut at the Paris Motor Show. The colored light is produced by passing electrical current through inert gases in a vacuum tube.

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