FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1925 to 1930 - Next
1925 Roquefort cheese became the first cheese to receive the "Appellation d'Origine Controlee" (AOC)
1925 Actor Jack Lemmon was born. A couple of his film titles: 'The Fortune Cookie,' 'Days of Wine and Roses.'
1925 Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt died. An English physician, he invented the short (6 inch) clinical thermometer. Before this a foot long thermometer was used that took 20 minutes to determine a patient's temperature. Ouch!
1925 'Tea for Two' is recorded by Binnie Hale & the Palace Theater Orchestra
1925 Teaching the theory of evolution became illegal in Tennessee.
1925 John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school.
1925 In Georgia, Tom Huston invents a mechanical peanut sheller.
1925 M.S. Swaminathan was born. Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and a leading figure in India's Green Revolution, which distributed high yield wheat and rice varieties to poor farmers.
1925 John Hawkes was born. American avant-garde novelist, author of Blood Oranges, The Lime Twig, The Goose on the Grave, etc.
1925 The Marx Brothers 'The Cocoanuts' opened on Broadway.
1925 The first motel opens, the Milestone Motel in San Luis Obispo, California, built by architect Arthur Hienemen.
1925 New York City had 17,000 restaurants.
1925 Three to 4 man-hours of labor required on 1 acre to produce 20 bushels of wheat.
1925 Discovered that ethylene is the agent responsible for initiating fruit coloring in oranges.
1926 USDA began inspection of live poultry.
1926 Targhee breed of sheep developed.
1926 Beef grading standards were introduced by the USDA.
1926 Comedian 'Soupy Sales' was born. Most of his routines ended with Soupy receiving a pie in the face.
1926 Paul Bocuse, French chef, is born at Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, France. French chef known as one of the founders of 'nouvelle cuisine'
1926 Luther Burbank died. American horticulturist, he developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables, including the Burbank Potato (1873), the Shasta Daisy, over 100 varieties of plums and prunes and 10 varieties of berries.
1926 The Mount Olive Pickle Company was founded in North Carolina.
1926 Ann B. Davis was born. She played the role of Alice the housekeeper and cook on the TV show 'The Brady Bunch' (1969-1974).
1926 The first automatic pop-up toaster was introduced by the Waters-Genter Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota
1926 Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean) was born. American actress, primarily remembered as being crowned Artichoke Queen of 1947 in Castroville, California.
1926 Dame Nelle Melba gave her farewell performance. Melba toast and Peach Melba were named in her honor.
1926 Emile Coue died. A French pharmacist, he was an advocate of autosuggestion. He suggested repeating the following sentence 15 to 20 times in the morning and evening: "Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better."
1926 Roquefort cheese is the first cheese designated with an appellation d'origine controlee. Only cheese that is processed in Roquefort, France and aged in the caves there may be called 'Roquefort Cheese.'
1926 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (the honey loving bear) by A. A. Milne is published.
1926 Jack Ryan was born. Before helping to develop the Barbie Doll for Mattell, Ryan worked for the Pentagon designing missiles!
1926 The Electrolux Servel Corp. received the first U.S. patent for a household refrigerator cooled by a sealed gas refrigerant.
1926 Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota marketed the first canned ham
1927 Erma Bombeck was born. Writer, humorist, you will find some of her quotes about family and food on the Food Reference website.
1927 Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, was born. His biggest hit was "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song" in 1956.
1927 Ira Remsen died. American chemist, co-discoverer in 1879 (with Constantine Fahlberg) of saccharin, the artificial sweetener. The FDA has required warning labels, since 1972, on products using saccharin because it is a suspected carcinogen.
1927 Clarence Birdseye of Massachusetts received a U.K. patent for frozen fish fingers.
1927 Imperial Airways became the first British airline to serve hot meals.
1927 Alfalfa was born on this day. Actually, it was Carl Switzer who played Alfalfa in the Our Gang short film series.
1927 The Holland Tunnel opened - the first Hudson River automobile tunnel from New York City to New Jersey.
1927 'Struttin' With Some Barbecue' was recorded by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five.
1927 Dr.Edward Anton Asselbergs was born. He developed the process for making instant mashed potato flakes, still used today.
1927 Overseas calling was first introduced in 1927. A three-minute call between New York and London cost about $75.00
1927 Edwin E. Perkins of Hastings, Nebraska invented the powered soft drink Kool-Aid.
1927 Pez peppermint breath mints were introduced in Vienna.
1927 Federal beef grading initiated.
1928 Soil erosion identified as serious threat to agricultural productivity.
1928 Future Farmers of America established.
1928 Fats Domino (Antoine Domino) was born in New Orleans. One of rock-and-roll's earliest stars, one of his early hits was 'Blueberry Hill' which reached number 2 in 1956.
1928 Ellsworth Milson Statler died. American hotel owner, founder of Statler Hotels. His Statler Hotel in Buffalo, New York was the first hotel in the U.S. to have running water and private baths in each room.
1928 Kraft's Velveeta Cheese was invented. It was packaged using the 1921 invention of a tinfoil lining that could house the cheese inside a wooden box. Its special cooking properties quickly caught on. When melted, it was as smooth as velvet (hence its name), and it would never curdle when heated. It replaced canned cheese. James L. Kraft founded J.L Kraft Bros. cheese factory in Stockton, Illinois in 1914. He introduced the company's first cheese in tins a year later. In 1917, Kraft cheese in tins was accompanying WWI soldiers to foreign fronts.
1928 Sliced bread was born. Otto Frederick Rohwedder spent many years working on a bread slicing machine beginning in 1912. He finally perfected it, and the first sliced bread was produced and sold at M.F. Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company, 100 Elm Street in Chillicothe, Missouri. According to the story, Mr. Bench assisted Rohwedder in the fine tuning the new bread slicing machine. The Chillicothe, Missouri Constitution-Tribune of July 7, 1928 carried a story of the new machines first use on that day.
1928 Andy Warhol was born. American painter of the pop art movement. In the 1960s he made paintings of Campbell's Soup cans, Coca-Cola cans and other American products.
1928 Walter E. Diemer died. While working for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company, he experimented with recipes for chewing gum as a hobby. He invented bubble gum in 1928.
1928 Katharine Hepburn makes her first New York stage appearance in 'Night Hostess.'
1928 Harry Ramsden opened what would become the most famous fish and chips restaurant in the world.
1928 The Green Giant became the mascot of the Minnesota Valley Canning Company.
1929 Sheffeld Farms of New York began using wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery.
1929 Popeye the spinach loving sailor first appeared in the comic strip 'Thimble Theatre.' Elzie Segar created Popeye.
1929 Asa Griggs Candler died. In 1887, Asa Candler (1851-1929) a wholesale drugist, purchased the formula for Coca-Cola from John S. Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, for $2,300. He sold the company in 1919 for $25 million.
1929 The first Marx Brothers film, 'Cocoanuts' premiered.
1929 More unusual uses for kitchen appliances: Foam rubber was developed at Dunlop Laboratories. British scientist E.A. Murphy used a kitchen mixer to whip natural latex rubber.
1929 'The National Farm and Home Hour' began on NBC radio.
1929 'Black Thursday' - the first day of the panic driven stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression.
1929 Black Tuesday -- The Great Crash.
1929 Charles Goodnight died. He is said to have devised the first 'chuck wagon' from an Army wagon in the 1850s or 1860s, with various shelves and compartments for food, equipment, utensils, medical supplies, etc.
1929 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played 'Auld Lang Syne' as their New Years Eve song for the first time.
1929 7-Up was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda when it was invented in 1929.
1929 The Ruby Red grapefruit was a chance mutation discovered at a farm in McAllen, Texas.
1929 Harland Sanders (Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame) opened his first restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky in the front room of a small gas station.
1929 Growing plants in water, hydroponics, invented.
1929 Mediterranean fruit fly discovered in Florida.
1929 First airplane seeding of rice in California.
1930 Of gainfully employed persons, 21.5 percent were engaged in agriculture.
1930 Plant Patent Act enabled the patenting of new plant varieties, excluding sexual and tuber-propagated plants.
1930 Tariff Act prohibited imports of meat and animals from countries infected with foot-and-mouth disease.
1930 The Zagnut candy bar was introduced.
1930 Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail was introduced.
1930 Scotch tape was developed by Richard Drew of the 3M Company
1930 Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Snickers bar in 1930
1930 At the St. Louis International Air Exposition, a cow supposedly flew in an airplane for the first time, and this same cow became the first cow to be milked while flying.
1930 Actor John Cullum was born. He played the restaurateur on the TV show ‘Northern Exposure’.
1930 Retail frozen foods go on sale for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts. Various fruits, vegetables, meat and fish were offered for sale. Clarence Birdseye had developed the method used to successfully freeze foods on a commercial scale.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his march to the coastal village of Dandi, to protest the British salt monopoly.
1930 'Twinkies' snack cakes go on sale for the first time.
1930 The first Publix grocery store was opened in Winter Haven, Florida by George W. Jenkins.
1930 Mrs Ellen Church, a registered nurse, became the 1st airline stewardess. The 11 passengers were flying on a United Airlines tri-motor Boeing 80A from San Francisco to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The meal was chicken, fruit salad and rolls.
1930 Richard G. Drew of St. Paul, Minnesota patented transparent cellophane adhesive tape. He worked out a deal with 3M to market this 'Scotch' tape. What did we ever do without it?
1930 Judge Joseph F. Crater of the New York State Supreme Court, walked out of a 45th Street restaurant in New York on his way to a show at the Belasco Theater. He was never heard from again. It was one of the most famous disappearances in American history.
1930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died. Creator of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes would go for days without food while working on a case.
1930 The ‘Dagwood’ sandwich was created by Dagwood Bumstead or the comic strip Blondie by Murat Bernard ‘Chic’ young. The ‘Dagwood’ is a sandwich made with many layers of bread, meats, cheese, lettuce, tomato, condiments, etc.
1930 'Gorgonzola' was recorded by Jack Hylton & His Orchestra with Leslie Sarony
1930 The Rotolactor was developed by the Walker-Gordon Dairy. It was a 50 stall revolving milking platform that could mechanically milk over 1,500 cows in seven hours.
1930 After a sandstorm in Morocco, there was a rain of mud in Paris and yellow sand fell in Spain.
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