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DECEMBER 24 - History of food and drink
Click here for a list of December Food Shows, Festivals, etc
--National Egg Nog Day
--St. Adam's Day, patron of gardeners.
--Christmas Eve - Children have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads
1809 Kit Carson, American frontiersman, was born. When he died May 23, 1868, his last words were supposedly "Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili."
1914 John Muir died. Muir was a naturalist who was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in California in 1890.
1968 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' by Marvin Gaye is #1 on the charts.
2006 In the Chicago suburb of Villa Park, thieves stole a semi tractor trailer filled with broccoli. It was valued at $50,000.
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