November 3 is:
National Sandwich Day
Housewife’s Day Anybody remember June Cleaver, Lucy Ricardo, Olivia Walton, or Harriet Nelson?
Publication of Federalist Paper #3, written by John Jay on November 3, 1787 and titled “Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence”. Jay continues to argue the benefits of a unified country using Safety as his cause, that a strong national government could better preserve peace and deter aggression for foreign countries.
As to those just causes of war which proceed from direct and unlawful violence, it appears equally clear to me that one good national government affords vastly more security against dangers of that sort than can be derived from any other quarter.
Birthday of Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793), American pioneer and colonizer of Texas, known as the “Father of Texas”
Birthday of William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794), American poet and newspaper editor of the New York Evening Post. His poetry has been described as being “of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers. Here’s the second verse of The Death of the Flowers:
Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours.
The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain
Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
US Supreme Court decided Native Americans can’t be Americans in 1883.
The Chevrolet Motor Car Co was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant in 1911.
From Today in Science
In 1952, Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas in Chester, N.Y. While a U.S. field naturalist near the Arctic, he had learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit. Freshly caught fish, when placed onto the Arctic ice in the frigid wind, froze solid almost immediately. In Sep 1922, he began a company, Birdseye Seafoods, Inc., to process chilled fish fillets at a plant near the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. On 3 Jul 1924, he organized the General Seafood Corporation, which began the frozen foods industry. Retail frozen foods began 6 Mar 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts at the “Springfield Experiment Test Market” which offered 26 different vegetables, fruits, fish, and meats.
The Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into space in 1957. She does not survive.