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Tagged: food holidays
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1892 The Sierra Club is formed in San Francisco for nature conservation.
1897 Jell-O was introduced.
1910 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist, was born in Linden, Texas.
1944 Gladys Knight was born. (Gladys Knight & the Pips) A ‘Pip’ is the small seed of a fruit, like those in an apple.
1999 After 22 years of controversial restoration, Leonardo de Vinci’s masterpiece ‘The Last Supper’ is returned to public display.
2003 The first cloned horse was born in a natural delivery. Cloned horses are currently banned from racing.
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1923 Delmonico’s Restaurant closed its doors, a victim of Prohibition. (Some sources list October 4, 1918).
1987 Archie Fairley Carr died. An American biologist and authority on turtles. His extensive studies and conservation efforts helped to increase turtle populations around the world.
2009 After months of numerous mechanical failures, a new recycling system was activated on the international space station. The new system recycles astronauts urine and sweat into drinking water.
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1506 Christopher Columbus, explorer, died.
1799 Honore de Balzac Born. French author. Balzac would lock himself away during creative bursts, drinking coffee and eating only fruit and eggs. When he finally took a break, he was known to consume huge quantities of food. One report recalls that at the Véry restaurant he ate “a hundred Ostend oysters, twelve cutlets of salt-meadow mutton, a duck with turnips, two partridges and a Normandy sole,” not to mention the desserts, fruit and liqueurs he also consumed.
1810 On this day Dolly Madison, wife of president James Madison, supposedly served the first ice cream at the White House, for a reception.
1862 President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law. It opened millions of acres Western land to settlers.
1874 Jeans with copper rivets are patented by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis.
1875 The International Bureau of Weights and Measures was created.
1884 L. Blue patented a hand corn sheller.
1892 George Sampson received a patent for a clothes dryer.
1913 William Hewlett was born. Founder with David Packard of Hewlett Packard Company. Before they became famous for computers and printers etc., some of their early inventions were an automatic urinal flusher and a weight loss shock machine!
1961 The record Jewfish weighed 680 pounds and was caught in Fernandina Beach, Florida.
1993 The last episode of ‘Cheers’ aired on TV.
2005 Governor Jeb Bush signed a bill making the orange the official State Fruit of Florida. The orange blossom and orange juice have been previously declared the official state flower and official state beverage.
2009Hot Dog Wars: Sara Lee (Ball Park Franks) sued Kraft Foods (Oscar Mayer Jumbo Beef Franks) over claims that Oscar Mayer franks are better than Ball Park Franks.
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1834 Catharine Furbish was born. An American botanist, she spent almost 40 years traveling and painting watercolors of the flora of the state of Maine.
1910 The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet and nothing happened. There had been dire predictions that everyone would die, and many hucksters sold ‘comet pills’ to counter the effects of the ‘comet gas.’
1962 Marilyn Monroe sings ‘Happy Birthday’ at a birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden.
2006 Nicole Belinda Franzen Reese was chosen as the 59th ‘Alice in Dairyland’ by the Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. She will be the spokesperson for the states agriculture industry.
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1808 Elijah Craig died. A Baptist minister in Kentucky, he is an important figure in the invention of Bourbon Whiskey. He ran a paper mill and started a distillery in 1789. Legend credits him with being the first to use new charred oak barrels to age corn whiskey, which is a key step in making bourbon.
1935 Allan Burns was born. Screenwriter and producer, co-creator of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. He also created the character Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch for Quaker Oats ‘Cap’n Crunch’ breakfast cereal.
1955 Chow Yun-Fat was born. Internationally famous Hong Kong actor.
1995 Elisha Cook Jr. died. A well known character actor in films and TV. I remember him mainly in his role as Wilmer, in the ‘Maltese Falcon’.
2001 Hong Kong ordered more than 1 million chickens and other poultry killed to halt the spread of another bird flu epidemic.
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1733 England passes the Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from anyplace other than Britain and its possessions.
1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent a Reaping Machine.
1838 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord died. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, known simply as Talleyrand, French statesman, diplomat and grand gourmet, called the ‘first fork of France.’ He served at the top levels of French governments for almost 50 years. During this time his chefs included Bouchee, Careme, and Avice. Many culinary preparations have been created or named for him.
1886 John Deere died. Inventor and manufacturer, he developed the first steel plow in the 1830s, and founded John Deere & Company in 1868.
1967 Tennessee repealed its 1925 law making it illegal to teach evolution in public schools.
1985 The largest salmon, a Chinook salmon, caught with rod and reel weighed over 97 pounds and was caught in Alaska.
1986‘Chicken Song’ by Spitting Image hit #1 in UK.
1992 Lawrence Welk, champagne music-maker, died.
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1686 Gabriel Fahrenheit was born. Fahrenheit was a German physicist who invented the Fahrenheit temperature scale thermometer. It was the first thermometer to use mercury instead of alcohol, which also extended the temperature range of thermometers.
1853 Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk.
1878 Vaseline petroleum jelly was trademarked by Robert August Chesebrough.
1896 The coldest May temperature ever recorded in the U.S. lower 48 states: Minus 10 F at Climax, Colorado.
1919 Henry John Heinz died. Founder of the H.J. Heinz company and creator of its slogan ’57 varieties.’
1943 Jack Bruce of the music group ‘Cream’ was born.
1985 The first McDonald’s restaurant, in Des Plains, Illinois, became the first fast food museum.
1991 World’s largest burrito created, 1,126 pounds
1994 The FDA announced that the ‘Flavr Savr’ tomato, a biotech developed food, is safe.
2008 The Chicago City Council repealed its ban on the sale of Foie Gras.
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1637 I am not totally confident with the month and day, but supposedly, Cardinal Richelieu ‘created’ the table knife when he had the points rounded on all knives to be used at his table. Presumably so no one could stab him.
1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick died. He is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper
1958 Velcro was trademarked.
1993 The Red Hot Chili Peppers play on the Simpsons TV show.
2008 Robert Mondavi died at age 94. A leading Napa Valley vintner who helped establish California wines among the best in the world.
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1838 Thomas Andrew Knight died. British horticulturist and botanist who experimented with geotropism, phototropism and heliotropism.
1886 W. Marshall patented a ‘grain binder.’
1934 The Dust Bowl. One of the worst dust storms ever to hit the Great Plains occurred. It lasted 2 days and the area lost massive amounts of top soil.
1946 The first CARE packages for survivors of WW II in Europe arrive at Le Havre, France. (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe).
1947 B.F. Goodrich announced the development of the tubeless tire.
2002 Joseph Bonanno, a former Mafia boss known as ‘Joe Bananas,’ died in Tucson, Arizona at age 97.
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1566 Leonhard Fuchs died. He was a German botanist who compiled the first modern, organized listing of plants and botanical terms, ‘Historia Stirpium’ in 1542. The plant and the color fuchsia were named for him.
1818 Paul Revere died. A silversmith and American Revolutionary folk hero, he also made surgical instruments and false teeth.
1850 Sir Thomas Johnston Lipton, grocer and tea merchant, was born.
1898 The first vending machine law was passed in Omaha, Nebraska.
1920 John Wesley Hyatt died. He developed the process for making celluloid, the first synthetic plastic. He also invented a water purifying system and a sugar cane mill. 2010 A 10 year-old 3rd grade student in Texas was given 1 week’s detention for being in possession of a candy bar at lunch time. The candy bar was also confiscated.
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1785 The beer-pump handle was patented by Joseph Bramah.
1845 Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was born. A Swedish scientist and inventor. Among his inventions was the centrifugal cream separator and a vacuum milking machine.
1914 C. W. Post (Charles William) died. He founded the Postum Cereal Co. in 1895 (renamed General Foods Corp. in 1922) to manufacture Postum cereal beverage; 1897 Grape Nuts, 1904 Post Toasties (originally called Elijah’s Mana).
1992 The record brown trout weighed over 40 pounds and was caught in Arkansas.
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1842 Emil Christian Hansen was born. He was a Danish botanist who developed new methods to culture yeast. He revolutionized the beer industry, and proved that there are different species of yeast. He refused to patent the method, but instead made it available for free to other brewers.
1855 John Gates was born. Gates was an inventor, promoter and barbed wire manufacturer.
1886 Coca Cola is first sold to the public at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
1968 Laurence M. Klauber died. Klauber was an American herpetologist and inventor who was a rattlesnake expert. If you want to know anything or everything about rattlesnakes, see his book “Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories and Influence on Mankind.”
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1660 Isaack B. Fubine of The Hague received a patent for macaroni.
(This fact is reported on many sites on the internet. No one has any further information listed, and I am in doubt as to its accuracy).
1873 Salmon Portland Chase died. He was Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and later Chief Justice.
1947 The ‘Kraft Television Theater’ premiered on NBC TV
1953 The world record swordfish was caught in Chile: 1,182 pounds.
1987 Shelly Long, who played Diane Chambers, makes her final appearance as a regular on ‘Cheers.’
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1806 Chapin Aaron Harris was born. He was cofounder of the first dental school in the world, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.
1833 John Deere developed the first steel plow.
1851 John Gorrie patented an ice making machine, the first U.S. patent for a mechanical refrigerator.
1862 Henry David Thoreau Died. American author, philosopher, and naturalist. Author of ‘Walden; or, Life in the Woods.’
1898 Daniel Gerber of baby food fame was born.
1905 Toots Shor, restaurateur was born.
1940 John Steinbeck receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath.’
1959 Icelandic gunboats fired on British trawlers during their ‘Cod War’ over fishing rights
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1865 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) was born. In 1889 Bly successfully completed an attempt to beat the record of Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg to go ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’. Bly was a U.S. newspaper reporter and completed the journey in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
1903 James Beard, culinary expert and cookbook author was born. Quote: “The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions”.
1925 John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school.
1926 Ann B. Davis was born. She played the role of Alice the housekeeper and cook on the TV show ‘The Brady Bunch’ (1969-1974).
1936 A patent was granted for the first bottle with a screw cap to Edward Ravenscroft of Glencoe, Illinois.
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