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JANUARY 29 - History of food and drink
Click Here for a List of January Food Festivals & Shows
National Corn Chip Day
UK: National Salt Awareness Day
1878 The first patent for a glass milk container was issued to George Lester.
1924 Carl R. Taylor of Cleveland, patented the first U.S. ice cream cone rolling machine.
1978 Sweden banned aerosol cans. No more Reddi-Wip
2004 A 60 ton, 56 foot long sperm whale exploded on a busy street in Tainan, Taiwan. A buildup of gas from internal decay caused the explosion. Researchers were taking the whale by truck to the National Cheng Kung University for a necropsy. The whale had beached itself and died on January 17. No one was injured in the explosion, but blood and entrails showered cars and shops, and traffic was held up for several hours while the mess was cleaned up.
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