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.
Birthday of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (November 2, 1699), was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work. Influenced Manet and Cézanne. Examples of his work can be found at 
Birthday of Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734), American pioneer, explorer, frontiersman. 
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The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, was first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage of 1520.
American photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico on November 1, 1941. It would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
Former First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, wife of 
October 31, 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther is believed to have nailed his 95 theses to Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany on this date.
Birthday of John Keats (October 31, 1795), English Romantic poet trained as a surgeon. John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.
National Magic Day, honoring the skills of magicians and commemorating the death of the great Harry Houdini in 1926.
1941 After nearly 15 years of work, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota was completed; the colossal sculpture features the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
National Candy Corn Day
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In 1938 – Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, breaking the baseball color barrier.
The portrait of the Quaker man on the Quaker® Oats package has been updated just three times since its creation in 1877, once in 1946, again in 1957 and, most recently, in 1972.
Anniversary of the death of Sir Walter Raleigh (October 29, 1618), English military and naval commander of expeditions to North America. He led two expeditions in search of El Dorado or “City of Gold” in South America. The men under his command ransacked a Spanish outpost. Upon his return to England, to appease the Spanish, Raleigh was arrested and executed.
1704 Death of John Locke, an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “Father of Liberalism”. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. Internationally, Locke’s political-legal principles continue to have a profound influence on the theory and practice of limited representative government and the protection of basic rights and freedoms under the rule of law.
Former First Lady, Abigail Adams died of typhoid fever on this day in 1818; wife of 
Statue of Liberty Dedication Day, (1886). Originally known as Liberty Enlightening the World, it was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States. The statue’s completion was marked by New York’s first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. It was designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Its framework of gigantic steel supports was designed by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the latter famous for designing the Eiffel Tower.
1955: American computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates—who cofounded Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company—was born.
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1967: American actress Julia Roberts, whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most-influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s, was born.
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1932 Birthday of Sylvia Plath, American poet best known for her novel ‘The Bell Jar,’ and for her poetry collections ‘The Colossus’ and ‘Ariel.’
A year later, in 1775 – King George III of Great Britain went before Parliament to declare the American colonies were in rebellion, and to authorize a military response to quell the American Revolution.
The Pony Express officially ceased operations. From April 3, 1860, to October 1861, it became the West’s most direct means of east–west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the country.
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Birthday of Hillary Rodham Clinton (October 26, 1947), wife of 
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1825 Birthday of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer. Compositions such as The Blue Danube helped establish Strauss as “the Waltz King” and earned him a place in music history. 
Birthday of Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838), French composer whose most famous work is the opera “Carmen”. Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the “Habanera” from act 1 and the “Toreador Song” from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. 
Birthday of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881), Spanish-born painter and sculptor; founder of the Cubist school and leader in the surrealistic movement in France. Please visit 
Birthday of Richard Evelyn Byrd (October 25, 1888), American naval officer and polar explorer who made five important expeditions to the Antarctic. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.
Former First Lady,Carolyn Harrison, wife of 
1929 Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal. He was the first US Cabinet member to go to jail.