SEPTEMBER 29 - Today in Food History
- National Mocha (Coffee) Day
- St. Michael's Day, patron of grocers and bakers. (Also called Goose Day in some locations - "If you eat goose on Michaelmas Day, you will never want money all the year round."
1860 Chapin Aaron Harris died. He was cofounder of the first dental school in the world, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.
1964 St. Paul, Minnesota gets its first McDonald's Restaurant. Burgers are 15 cents each.
1967 Gladys Knight and the Pips released 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine.'
1974 The TV show 'Alice' debuted. Most of the action took place in Mel’s Diner.
1978 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' by Taste Of Honey is #1 on the charts.
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