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MAY 10 - History of food and drink
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National Shrimp Day
St. Solangia's Day, patron of shepherds.
1566 Leonhard Fuchs died. He was a German botanist who compiled the first modern, organized listing of plants and botanical terms, 'Historia Stirpium' in 1542. The plant and the color fuchsia were named for him.
1818 Paul Revere died. A silversmith and American Revolutionary folk hero, he also made surgical instruments and false teeth.
1850 Sir Thomas Johnston Lipton, grocer and tea merchant, was born.
1898 The first vending machine law was passed in Omaha, Nebraska.
1920 John Wesley Hyatt died. He developed the process for making celluloid, the first synthetic plastic. He also invented a water purifying system and a sugar cane mill.
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