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JUNE 20 - History of food and drink Click here for a list of June Food Shows, Festivals, etc
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
1861 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born. He discovered what we now call 'vitamins,' essential nutrients needed to maintain health.
1948 The TV show 'Toast of the Town' premiers on CBS with Ed Sullivan as the host.
1964 'Chapel of Love' by Dixie Cups is #1 on the charts
1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline opened. It takes oil 38 days to travel 800 miles from the fields in Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.
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