JUNE 27 - Today in Food History• National Orange Blossom Day
(Orange Trivia & facts --- Orange Quotes) • National or International Pineapple Day
(Pineapple Trivia) • National Onion Day [National Onion Assn]
(Onion Trivia --- Onion Recipes --- Onion Quotes)
On this day in:1615 The first tea is imported to the west.
(Tea Trivia, Facts and History) 1850 Lafcadio Hearn was born. (Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Hearn). A writer, translator and teacher, he wrote 'La Cuisine Creole,' the first Creole cookbook.
(Creole and Cajun) 1884 U.S. President Chester A. Arthur signed a bill creating the Bureau of Labor to collect information on the subject of working people and the "means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity" 1893 The New York stock market crashed. 1893 The melody of 'Happy Birthday to You' was first published ('Good Morning to All'). 1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz died. An American naturalist, co-founder with her husband (Louis Agassiz), of the Anderson School of Natural History. She was also the first president of Radcliffe College. 1970 'Vitamin C' was born. ‘Vitamin C’ is the stage name of singer, actress, Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick. 1985 Route 66, which originally ran from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, was officially decertified and removed from the U.S. Highway System, having been replaced by the new Interstate Highway System. 1996 Albert R. Broccoli died (born April 5, 1909). Producer of the James Bond movie series. 2001 Actor Jack Lemmon died. A couple of his film titles: 'The Fortune Cookie,' and 'Days of Wine and Roses.' 2012 Austrian police stopped 3 vans about to cross the border into Hungary. The vans contained 9.5 tons of garlic stolen in Spain, with an estimated value of $37,500. 2020 Coronavirus: Texas and Florida order bars closed as both report record new cases.
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