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SEPTEMBER 10 - History of food and drink
Click here for a list of September Food Shows, Festivals, etc
Hot Dog Day
St. Theodard's Day, patron of cattle keepers
1859 Thomas Nuttall died. An English naturalist and botanist, he collected and studied plants around the Chesapeake Bay area in the U.S.
1898 Waldo Lonsbury Semon was born. 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.
1913 The official route of the Lincoln Highway was announced. It was the first coast to coast highway, running from New York to San Francisco.
1949 Barriemore Barlow of the music group 'Jethro Tull' was born.
2001 The first case of mad-cow disease in Asian animals was reported in a dairy cow in Japan.
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