JUNE 29 - Today in Food History• National Almond Buttercrunch Day (Almond Trivia) • Waffle Iron Day [origin unknown] (Waffle Recipes) • Feast day of St. Peter, patron saint of fishermen, bakers, harvesters. • Canada's National Fishing Week (June 29-July 7, 2024) [Canadian National Sportfishing Foundation]
On this day in:1875 Gilpin Moore of Rock Island, Illinois received a patent for a two wheel Sulky-Plow. A riding plow which allowed the driver to sit and plow, and to accurately set the plow depth. 1918 The 'Grande Dame of the Rockies,' the Broadmoor Hotel & Resort officially opened in Colorado.
[www.broadmoor.com] --- (Colorado Food Trivia) 1943 General Eisenhower requested that Coca-Cola provide 10 portable bottling plants for U.S. troops overseas. (Coca Cola Trivia & Facts) 1956 President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. A network of 41,000 miles of limited-access roads, the Interstate System, was planned to link 90 percent of cities with populations over 50,000 people. 1966 The Barclaycard was introduced by Barclays Bank, the first credit card in Britain. 1967 Jayne Mansfield died. American beauty contest winner, stage and screen actress. Supposedly the only title she ever turned down was 'Miss Roquefort Cheese,' because she believed it "just didn't sound right."
(Roquefort Cheese Trivia) 1979 The movie 'Meatballs' starring Bill Murray premiered today. 1994 An almost complete fossil of a Pygmy Mammoth skeleton was discovered on Santa Rosa Island off the coast of California. Its age was estimated at 12,840 years old and stood 5 1/2 feet tall, weighing about 2,000 pounds. 1997 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls is #1 on the charts 2005 The USDA confirmed today the first domestic case of mad cow disease. The 12 year old cow was born in Texas and spent its whole life on the same ranch. 2007 The animated movie 'Ratatouille' opened in U.S. theatres. The story is about a rat named Remy, who can also cook, who befriends a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant. (Ratatouille Recipe) 2020 Coronavirus: California orders bars in Los Angeles and 6 other counties closed. 2021 Extreme heatwave hits the Pacific Northwest breaking all time high temperature records. Seattle, Washington posted a record 108 degrees; Portland Oregon reaches a scorching 116 degrees breaking its previous record by 8 degrees.
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