The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

	DECEMBER 3

Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching

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Today's 5-Minute Quest

Answers to all questions can be found on this page or by using links provided on this page.
Good Luck!

BEGINNERS

1. In what year was the first radio program broadcast in Puerto Rico on this date? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. On this date in 1818, which state became the 21st state of the United States? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. According to Writer's Almanac, in which city and state was Gilbert Stuart born? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author or illustrator born on this date:
SO BUR LEE

INTERMEDIATE

1. What was the name of the anti-slavery newspaper first published on this date in 1847 by Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to the National Park Service, how old was George McClellan when he entered the Military Academy at West Point? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to Thomas Jefferson University, what was Carlos Juan Finlay's greatest triumph? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of an 1892 work by Robert Louis Stevenson (according to the Author's Calendar)
CHEW TREKER

EXPERT
(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)

1. According to the National Park Service, Ellen Swallow Richards was the creator of what fields of study?

2. According to the Author's Calendar, what did Joseph Conrad's family go to Volgoda, Russia in 1861?

3. According to the Edgar Awards, for what book did Barbara Brooks Wallace receive the 1994 Edgar Award?

Use all of these letters to spell the title of an 1800 portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart (according to the National Gallery of Art):
O TORN BLISTER

George McClellan Born on This Date 1826 U.S. Army]	Carlos Juan Finlay Born on This Date 1833 [Thomas Jefferson University]	Ellen Swallow Richards Born on This Date 1842 [Vassar College]	Joseph Conrad Born on This Date 1857 [City University of New York]	Barbara Brooks Wallace Born on This Date 1922


United Nations: International Day of Disabled Persons (Observed annually on December 3 since 1992)
Catholicism: Feast Day of St. Francis Xavier (Observed annually on December 3)



1763	Mary Lamb (English Author Who Wrote with her Brother Charles, Tales from Shakespeare)
1920	Esther Elisabeth Carlson (Massachusetts-born Children's Author)
1922	Barbara Brooks Wallace (American Children's Author)
1931	Rose Blue (New York City-born Children's Author)
1937	Piero Ventura (Italian Children's Author, Illustration)

1766	Robert Bloomfield (English Poet)
1857	Joseph Conrad (Ukrainian-born English Novelist)
1923	Malcolm Franklin (Step-Son of William Faulkner; Author of Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak

1755	Gilbert Stuart (Rhode Island-born Artist)

1883	Anton von Werbern (Austrian Composer)
1914	Irving Fine (Massachusetts-born Composer)

1753	Samuel Crompton (English Inventor of the Mule for Spinning Cotton)
1833	Carlos Juan Finlay (Cuban physician, Epidemiologist Who Discovered That Certain Mosquitoes Transmit Yellow Fever)
1838	Cleveland Abbe (New York City-born Meteorologist Who First Proposed Time Zones to Standardize Railroad Schedules)
1842	Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (Massachusetts-born Chemist, Sanitation Engineer, Educator, Home Economist)
1857	Carl Koller (Czech-American Eye Surgeon Who Discovered the Anesthetic Properties of Cocaine)
1895	Anna Freud (Austrian Child Psychologist; Daughter of Sigmund Freud)
1900	Richard Kuhn (Austrian Biochemist; 1938 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry)
1903	John von Neumann (Hungarian-American Mathematician)	$Mathematics$
1933	Paul Crutzen (Dutch Meteorologist; 1995 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry)

1842	Charles Alfred Pillsbury (New Hampshire-born Flour Miller, Food Products Manufacturer; Founder of Minnesota-based Pillsbury Corporation)

1826	George McClellan (Pennsylvania-born Union General; 1864 Candidate for President of the United States)
1871	Newton Diehl Baker (West Virginia-born Secretary of War)

1855	J.W.E. Bowen (New Orleans-born African-American Educator, Minister, Writer, Lecturer)
1929	John Howie (Mississippi-born Philosopher, Scholar)

1838	Octavia Hill (English Reformer; Leader in Promoting Housing Improvements for the Poor, Founder of the National Trust for Historic Places)
1899	Hayato Ikeda (Japanese Prime Minister: 1960-4)
1925	Kim Dea-jung (President of South Korea; 2000 Nobel Laureate for Peace)

1922	Sven Nykvist (Swedish Cinematographer)
1927	Andy Williams (Iowa-born Popular Singer)
1930	Jean Luc Godard (French Director)
1960	Julianne Moore (North Carolina-born Actress)
1960	Daryl Hannah (Chicago-born Actress)
1968	Brendan Fraser (Indiana-born Actor)
1980	Anna Chlumsky (Chicago-born Actress)
1981	Brian Bonsall (California-born Actor)

1922	Tom Fears (California Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame)
1965	Katerina Witt (German Member of the Figure Skating Hall of Fame)

1884	Joseph Graves Olney (Texas Outlaw)
1894	Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Children's Author)
1978	William Grant Still (Mississippi-born African-American Composer)


1658	A Court in the Plymouth Colony Orders Boats Carrying Quakers Be Seized and Prevented From Landing

1712	Georg Frederick Handel's Opera, "Il pastor fido," Is First Performed in London
1721	36-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach's Marries His Second Wife, 21-year-old Anna Magdalena Wülken
1724	Johann Sebastian Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 62 ("Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" I) Is First Performed in Leipzig, Germany
1739	Georg Frederick Handel's "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day," Is First Performed in London
1740	Georg Frederick Handel's Opera, "Il pastor fido," Is First Performed in London
1787	Joseph Oliver and Sydenham Thorne Found the town of Milford on the North Side of the Mispillion River in Kent County, Delaware

1800	French Defeat Austrians at Battle of Hohenlinden
1803	Lewis: Continued my observations. We set out form the landing at 4:15 and passed an island in the middle of the river. We settled in after dark.
1804	Clark: a fine morning the after part of the day Cold & windey the wind from the N W. The Father of the Mandan who was killed Came and made us a present of Some Dried Simnens [pumpkins] & a little pemicon, we made him Some Small preasents for which he was much pleased Ordway: cold & windy. the work carried on as usal. commenced Setting up the pickets
1805	Clark: a fair windey morning wind from the East the men returned with the Elk which revived the Spirits of my party verry much I am Still unwell and Can't eate even the flesh of the Elk. an Indian Canoe of 8 Indians Came too, those Inds. are on their way down to the Clât Sops with Wap pa to to barter with that nation, I purchasd. a fiew of those roots for which I gave Small fish hooks, those roots I eate with a little Elks Soupe which I found gave me great relief I found the roots both nurishing and as a check to my disorder. The Indians proceeded on down through emence high waves maney times their Canoe was entirely out of Sight before they were ½ a mile distance. Serjt. Pryor & Gibson who went hunting yesterday has not returned untill after night, they informed me that they had killed 6 Elk at a great distance which they left lying, haveing taken out their interals that they had been lost and in their ramble saw a great deel of Elk Sign. after eateing the marrow out of two Shank bones of an Elk, the Squar choped the bones fine boiled them and extracted a pint of Grease, which is Superior to the tallow of the animal. Some rain this evening I marked my name on a large pine tree imediately on the isthmus William Clark December 3rd 1805. By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805.—
1806	In Vincennes, a Group Headed by William Henry Harrison Incorporates the First Circulating Library in the Indiana Territory
1818	Illinois Becomes 21st State in the United States
1825	President John Quincy Adams Confirms the Selection of Pensacola, Florida as the Site for a United States Navy Yard
1828	Andrew Jackson Is Elected as the 7th President of the United States
1832	Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Cobb, Gilmer, Murray, Cass, Floyd, and Paulding Counties Are Created as Georgia's 81st-89th Counties
1838	Abraham Lincoln Is Nominated for Speaker of the Illinois General Assembly, but Is Defeated by 4 Votes
1838	Representatives from Florida's 20 Counties Gather in St. Joseph to Write a Constitution in Anticipation of Statehood
1839	Abraham Lincoln Is Admitted to Practice Law in the U.S. Circuit Court
1846	Iowans Inaugurate Their First Governor, Ansel Briggs
1847	Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass Start the anti-Slavery Newspaper The North Star
1857	Governor Joseph E. Brown Signs Legislation Creating Dawson County from Areas of Gilmer and Lumpkin Counties
1861	President Lincoln Delivers His Annual Address to Congress
1861	George Opdyke Is Elected Mayor of New York City
1863	Florida Governor John Milton Signs the Legislative Bill Incorporating the Monticello and Thomasville Railroad Company
1864	A Federal Task Force Destroys Seven Boilers and Other Equipment at a Large Salt Works Near Florida's Tampa Bay
1868	W.E. Gladstone Elected to First of Four Terms As British Prime Minister
1874	Buffalo Bill Cody Performs at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware with His Western Show, "Scouts of the Plains"
1883	In Ohio, Oberlin Holds Its First Classes
1885	The Dallas Morning News Buys Its Major Competitor, the Dallas Herald
1887	In Washington, the First Trains Cross the Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge Spanning the Columbia River Between Pasco and Kennewick

1901	President Theodore Roosevelt Asks Congress to Regulate Trusts
1907	Future Movie Star Mary Pickford and Future Director Cecil B. DeMille Appear in the Broadway Play The Warrens of Virginia
1908	Edward Elgar's "Symphony No. 1" Is First Performed at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England
1910	First Neon Lamp Displayed in Paris
1912	Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro Sign an Armistice with Turkey, Ending the First Balkan War
1916	General Robert Nivelle Replaces General Joseph-Jacques-CÉsaire Joffre as Commander in Chief of the French Forces
1922	The First Radio Program Is Broadcast in Puerto Rico on Station WKAQ
1924	The Anton, Texas Townsite Company Sells More Than 200 Lots in the New Town
1925	George Gershwin Premieres His Concerto in F at Carnegie Hall in New York City
1929	President Hoover Declares the Nation Is Recovering from Market Crash
1931	The First Alka Seltzer Is Sold
1932	William Faulkner Publishes "Mountain Victory" in the Saturday Evening Post
1939	U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Approves a Loan for Seattle, Washington's Yesler Terrace Public Housing
1944	Civil War Breaks Out in Athens as Communist Guerillas Battle Democratic Forces For Control of a Liberated Greece
1946	100,000 Workers from 142 Unions Strike Against Oakland, California Businesses & Government
1947	Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire Opens on Broadway
1947	WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee Is Established as the First Television Station in Wisconsin
1948	Former Communist Spy, Whittaker Chambers, Produces Microfilm of Secret Documents Hidden Inside a Pumpkin on His Maryland Farm

1951	In Waco, Texas, the Armstrong Browning Library Is Dedicated on the Campus of Baylor University
1954	Samuel Barber's Oratorio "Prayers of Kierkegaard" for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra Is First Performed by the Boston Symphony
1960	Camelot Opens on Broadway at the Majestic Theater
1960	Canada Welcomes It's 2-millionth Immigrant Since the End of World War II
1963	Aaron Copland's Ballet, "Dance Panels," Is First Performed in Munich, Germany
1964	Police Arrest 800 Students Staging a Sit-In at the Administration Building of the University of California at Berkeley
1965	An all-White Jury in Alabama Convicts 3 Ku Klux Klansmen for the Murder of White Civil Rights Activist Viola Liuzzo
1967	South African Doctor, Christiaan Barnard, Performs the First Successful Human Heart Transplant
1967	Luxury Train, the 20th Century Limited, Completes Its Final Run from New York City to Chicago
1970	Two Tennessee Williams Plays Are, Televised Together under the Title Dragon Country by New York Television Theatre
1978	Michigan Is the First Industrial State to Enact a Beverage Container Deposit Law
1979	Iranians Complete 2-day Constitutional Referendum Giving Absolute Power to Ayatollah Khomeini
1979	11 Dead, 8 Injured, at Who Concert in Cincinnati, Ohio
1984	An Explosion at a Union Carbide Pesticide Plant in Bhopal, India, Kills at Least 2,000 People, Injuring Another 200,000
1988	Barry Sanders of Oklahoma State Wins Heisman Trophy
1989	President George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev Essentially End the Cold War with a Meeting Off the Coast of Malta
1989	Egon Krenz Resigns as Leader of the East German Communist Politburo and the Party's Central Committee
1991	Radical Shiite Muslim's Release American Hostage Allen Sutten after 5 Years
1992	Two IRA Bombs Go Off in the Center of Manchester, England, Injuring 65
1997	The International Monetary Fund Commits $55 Billion to Bailout the South Korean Economy
1999	Scientists Fail to Make Contact with the Mars Polar Lander on Its Descent; the Spacecraft Is Presumed Destroyed

2001	Israel Declares War on Terrorism
2001	Inventor Dean Kamen Unveils the Segway

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