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FEBRUARY 8 - History of food and drink
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National Molasses Bar Day
Feast of St. Meingold, patron of bakers.
1795 Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge was born. A German chemist who developed a method for obtaining sugar from beet juice.
1886 Wilhelm Koppers was born. This cultural anthropologist developed theories on the origins of society based on studies of hunter-gatherer tribes.
1898 John Sherman of Worcester, Massachusetts received a patent for the first machine to fold and seal envelopes.
1925 Actor Jack Lemmon was born. A couple of his film titles: 'The Fortune Cookie' and 'Days of Wine and Roses'
1946 Adolfo De La Parra of the music group 'Canned Heat' was born.
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