AUGUST 20 - Today in Food History
- National Lemonade Day
- National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day
- St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Day, patron of beekeepers
On this day in:
1910 The Great Fire of 1910 (also called the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) was the largest forest fire in U.S. history. Burning for 2 days, August 20 & 21, it destroyed about 3 million acres across northeast Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana (an area about the size of Connecticut). 87 people were killed, including 78 firefighters.
1948 Robert Plant of the music group 'Led Zeppelin' was born.
1955 'The Popcorn Song' by Cliffie Stone hit number 14 on the charts.
1968 The largest sea bass caught with a fishing rod weighed over 563 pounds. It was caught off the coast of California.
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