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MAY 26 - History of food and drink
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National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
1923 James Arness was born. Best known as Marshal Matt Dillon on the TV series 'Gunsmoke,' he also played the creature in the 1951 movie 'The Thing from Another World.' The creature was a vegetable based alien life form, a “super intellectual carrot.”
1955 Morimoto Masaharu was born in Hiroshima, Japan. Masaharu is a well known Japanese Chef, and was the last Japanese Iron Chef on the TV show, Iron Chef (late 1990s). He now has his own restaurant, Morimoto in Philadelphia.
1971 Don Maclean recorded 'American Pie'.
1979 'Reunited' by Peaches & Herb is #1 on the charts
1999 Waldo Lonsbury Semon died. Semon was an American Inventor who is credited with the invention of Vinyl. Vinyl is the 2nd most used plastic in the world. Semon held over 100 patents.
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