December 3

Today in History
• 1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
• 1621 - Galileo invents telescope
• 1775 - 1st official U.S. flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
• 1818 - Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
• 1828 - Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
• 1834 - 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY)
• 1835 - 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
• 1922 - 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Candle Day
• Coats and Toys for Kids Day
• Day of Navarre
• Feast of St. Francis Xavier
• Ghana Farmer’s Day
• Make a Gift Day
• National Green Bean Casserole Day
• Saba Day in Saba

Birthdays
• 1368 - Charles VI, the Well-Beloved, king of France, 1380-1422
• 1616 - John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer
• 1684 - Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg, founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature
• 1753 - Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine)
• 1795 - Rowland Hill, English inventor who introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
• 1806 - Henry A. Wise, American lawyer and politician (33rd Governor of Virginia)
• 1838 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
• 1842- Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist and co-founder (Pillsbury Company)