FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1941 to 1945 - Next
1941 Roy J. Plunkett received a U.S. patent for Teflon. He had discovered it by accident in 1938.
1941 American author Sherwood Anderson supposedly swallowed a toothpick or a swizzle stick while at a cocktail party in the Panama Canal Zone, and died of peritonitis.
1941 'All That Meat And No Potatoes' was recorded by jazz musician Fats Waller.
1941 The original Elsie the Cow died. Elsie the cow was originally a cartoon character appearing in ads for Borden Milk. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, when people began asking where Elsie was, Borden's picked a cow originally named 'You'll do Lobelia' from their herd to be Elsie. Elsie stared in commercials, made personal appearances, and even starred in an RKO movie, 'Little Men.' Elsie was injured in a truck accident in 1941 and had to be put to sleep. She is buried in Plainsboro, New Jersey.
1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman was born.
1941 General Mills introduced 'Cherioats.' The name was changed to 'Cherrios' in 1945.
1941 Musician 'Jelly Roll' Morton died.
1941 Martha Stewart was born. Entertaining advisor, cookbook author, etc.
1941 Paul Sabatier died. Organic chemist who researched catalytic organic synthesis. The margarine, oil hydrogenation and methanol industries grew out of his research.
1941 Mama Cass Elliot (The Mamas and the Papas) was born. The rumor that she choked to death on a ham sandwich in 1974 is not true. She actually died of a heart attack.
1941 The first aerosol can was patented.
1941 Carmen Miranda recorded 'The Man with the Lollipop Song.'
1941 'King Biscuit Time' radio show was first broadcast from Helena, Arkansas. It is the longest running daily radio program in history, broadcasting live blues music, interviews, etc. It is named for its sponsor, King Biscuit Flour. The King Biscuit Flour Hour rock and roll radio program took its name from 'King Biscuit Time.'
1941 First simple daily nutrition guide published.
1941 Maytag Dairy Farms began producing its world famous Maytag Blue Cheese after Fred Maytag II heard about the process for making Blue Cheese developed by Iowa State Univ.
1941 Garbage disposals introduced.
1941 Beltsville small white turkey developed; ancestor of today's commercial turkeys.
1941 War time price controls go into effect on beef. A widespread black market emerges.
1941 General Mills introduced 'Cheerioats' breakfast cereal (renamed to 'Cherrios' in 1945). 'Cheerioats' sponsored the 'Lone Ranger' radio program beginning in 1941.
1942 Chemical structure of DDT discovered; military began to use chemical to protect against typhus.
1942 Corn dogs are invented by Neil Fletcher for the Texas State Fair.
1942 Country Joe McDonald of 'Country Joe and the Fish' was born.
1942 Effective huller developed for harvesting castor beans.
1942 Clinton Hart Merriam died. A biologist, he studied the effects of using birds to control agricultural pests. He also helped found the National Geographic Society, and what is now known as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
1942 E very-other-day milk delivery started (initially as a war conservation measure).
1942 War time food rationing began in the U.S.
1942 Leon Daudet died. French journalist and novelist, well known gastronome of his time.
1942 Oskar Bolza died. German mathematician noted for his work on the reduction of hyperelliptic to elliptic integrals. Huh?
1942 Casablanca, the movie, premiers in New York City on Thanksgiving Day
1942 Chris Hillman of the music group 'Flying Burrito Brothers' was born
1942 Coffee rationing began in the U.S.
1942 The U.S. military began using K-Rations, developed by Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota.
1943 Alan Wilson of the music group 'Canned Heat' was born.
1943 Jack Bruce of the music group 'Cream' was born.
1943 Honey Lantree of the music group 'Honeycombs' was born.
1943 Mick Abrahams of the music group 'Jethro Tull' was born.
1943 Jerry Martini of the music group 'Sly & The Family Stone' was born.
1943 Barbara Ann Hawkins of the vocal group 'The Dixie Cups' was born.
1943 George Washington Carver died. African American agricultural scientist and innovator. He developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. He founded the George Washington Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, for agricultural research.
1943 Developed method for cleaning Navy airplane engines by blasting them with ground corn cobs.
1943 Pre-sliced bread was banned in the U.S. for the duration of World War II, to conserve metal from spare parts that might be needed
1943 Palatable dehydrated eggs developed.
1943 Laslo Biro patented the ball point pen.
1943 General Eisenhower requested Coca-Cola provide 10 portable bottling plants for US troops overseas.
1943 Sgt. Edward Dzuba received the Legion of Merit award because of his talent to use food scraps in unusual and appetizing recipes.
1943 Research to create fruit essences began; led to development of concentrated frozen apple and grape juices.
1943 John Harvey Kellogg died. Physician, vegetarian and health food pioneer. He was superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he developed the first breakfast cereals for his patients, Granose (granola) and toasted flakes. His brother, William K. Kellogg founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. to produce cornflakes.
1943 Beatrix Potter died. English author of children's books, her first and most famous story is 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit,' originally written as an illustrated letter to a sick child.
1943 Dr. Alexander P. Anderson Died. He developed Puffed Rice in NYC in 1902, which was introduced to the world at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
1943 ‘Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America’ was published. Alfred Charles Kinsey is famous for the two books his Institute for Sex Research published, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior of the Human Female (1953). He also wrote Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (1943).
1944 Gladys Knight was born. (Gladys Knight & the Pips) A 'Pip' is the small seed of a fruit, like those in an apple.
1944 Musician Eddie Rabbitt was born.
1944 Eric Bloom of the music group 'Blue Oyster Cult' was born.
1944 Henry Vestine of the music group 'Canned Heat' was born.
1944 Rosa Lee Hawkins of the vocal group 'Dixie Cups' was born.
1944 Michael Clark of the music group 'Flying Burrito Brothers' was born.
1944 Rob Grill of the music group 'Grassroots' was born.
1944 Jack Casady of the music group 'Hot Tuna' was born.
1944 John Sebastian of the music group 'Loving Spoonful' was born.
1944 Skip Spence and Don Stevenson of the music group 'Moby Grape' were born.
1944 Edgar Froese of the music group 'Tangerine Dream' was born.
1944 Tim Bogert of the music group 'Vanilla Fudge' was born.
1944 Author Frances Moore Lappe was born. She is the author of the best selling 'Diet for a Small Planet' (1971) which indirectly encouraged a vegetarian diet, by demonstrating that raising animals for food was an extremely wasteful use of resources. Also: 'World Hunger: 12 Myths', 'Food First', 'Taking Population Seriously'. etc.
1944 Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born. He was a chemist who invented Bakelite, the first plastic that did not soften when heated. Those black plastic knobs on stoves were made of bakelite.
1944 Synthetic quinine was made for the first time at Harvard University.
1944 Alice Waters was born. Executive Chef and Owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant, opened in 1971 in Berkeley, California.
1944 Most wartime meat rationing ended in the United States.
1944 Chiquita Banana, the song and the advertising jingle were both created for United Fruit Company.
'I'm Chiquita banana and I've come to say
Bananas have to ripen in a certain way
When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue
Bananas taste the best and are best for you
You can put them in a salad
You can put them in a pie-aye
Any way you want to eat them
It's impossible to beat them
But, bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator
So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator.'
Music © 1945 Shawnee Press Inc.
1945 Don McLean was born. American singer/songwriter, best known for his 1971 'American Pie.'
1945 Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton, singer & songwriter was born. A member of the rock groups the Yardbirds and Cream.
1945 Bob Hite of the music group 'Canned Heat' was born.
1945 Stu Cook of the music group 'Creedence Clearwater Revival' was born.
1945 Joan Johnson of the vocal group the 'Dixie Cups' was born.
1945 Alan Ward of the music group 'The Honeycombs' was born.
1945 Peter Lewis of the music group 'Moby Grape' was born.
1945 Vincent Martell of the music group 'Vanilla Fudge' was born.
1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first U.S. city to fluridate its drinking water, to reduce tooth decay.
1945 The Andrews Sisters recording of 'Rum and Coca Cola' hit #1 on the popular music charts.
1945 Fresh fruit maturity standards established for marketing oranges.
1945 The first Food-O-Mat was installed in a Grand Union Co. store in New Jersey.
1945 World Food Day. The founding day of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
1945 'Cheerioats' cereal was renamed 'Cheerios'
1945 Boordy Vineyards opened, the first bonded winery in Maryland.
1945 James T. Ehler, Chef and food writer, was born. That's me - creator, writer, editor, publisher & webmaster of the Food Reference Website.
1945 Wartime rationing ended in the U.S.
1945 The microwave oven was patented.
1945 Japan organized school children to gather more than 1 million tons of acorns to make into flour due to dwindling stocks of rice and wheat.
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