A bit of December 3rd history…
1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Columbia
1736 - Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton’s theory that the Earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere
1775 - 1st official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard USS Alfred
1854 - Eureka Stockade: in what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Victoria are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses
1868 - 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
1911 - Willis Carrier presents his influential “Rational Psychrometic Formulae” on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1984 - “Do They Know It’s Christmas” single by Band Aid is released in the UK (pictured)
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George HW Bush declare the Cold War over
2018 - 7 yr old Ryan of Ryan Toysreview is the years highest paid Youtube star earning $22 million
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