FEBRUARY 3 - Today in Food History
- National Carrot Cake Day
- Japan: Setsubun (Bean Throwing Festival)
- African Heritage & Health Week February 1-7, 2013
(commemorates the foods, flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of African ancestors from Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the American South.)
On this day in:
1468 Johannes Gutenberg died. He invented the method of printing from moveable type. One of the important innovations in his method was a new press, similar to the screw presses used in winemaking.
1815 The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
1823 Spencer Fullerton Baird was born. An American naturalist and zoologist, he was the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
1913 The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It gave Congress the power to levy taxes on income. In 1913 less than 1% of the population paid income tax at the rate of 1%.
1916 The Cafe Voltaire opened in Zurich, Switzerland. It became a meeting place for members of the Dada movement in art and literature.
1946 Chicken Shack guitarist Stan Webb was born today.
1959 The day the music died. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) are killed in a plane crash near Mason City, Iowa.
1968 The Lemon Pipers single 'Green Tambourine' was number 1 on the U.S. singles chart.
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