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JULY 25 - History of food and drink
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--National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
--St Christopher, patron of fruit dealers, gardeners, travellers.
1871 Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York was issued a patent for perforated wrapping paper.
1872 It was reported to have rained black worms in Bucharest, Rumania.
1874 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev was born. Lebedev was a Russian chemist who developed a method to produce synthetic rubber on a commercial scale, which used potatoes and limestone as raw materials.
1948 Bread rationing ends in Britain.
1993 Vincent Schaefer died. A U.S. research chemist, he invented 'cloud seeding' with dry ice to cause rain or snow.
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