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--Gingerbread Day
--Feast day of St. Boniface, patron saint of brewers.
--If it rains on the 5th of June, it means the blackberries will be small and full of seeds.

1718 Thomas Chippendale, famous furniture designer and maker was born

1856 The first Vegetarian Community was established in Kansas.

1876 Foil wrapped bananas are sold for a dime at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Bananas become a popular treat for the first time in the U.S. when word spread about how delicious they were.

1877 New York taxed oleomargarine to protect the dairy industry.

1883 Horlick's developed the process to dehydrate milk, and patented it in 1883, calling it Malted Milk. Horlick's originally produced a food for babies and invalid's, that could be shipped without spoiling.

1934 Charles Francis Jenkins died. An inventor, Jenkins is best known as an early television pioneer. Among his many inventions was a cone-shaped drinking cup.

1977 The Apple II, the first personal computer went on sale.

1977 Alice Cooper's pet boa constrictor died after its dinner of a rat bit it first.

 

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