JUNE 20 - Today in Food History• National Vanilla Milkshake Day (Shake Recipes) • Ice Cream Soda Day. • World Martini Day (3rd Sat - June 20, 2026) by Belvedere Vodka in 2012 (National Martini Day is June 19) (Martini Recipes --- Martini Trivia & Facts)
(Martini Quotes) • National Kouign Amann Day (a pastry originating in Brittany, France) • [Men’s Health Week] (June 14-21, 2026) (week leading up to and including Father’s Day) • Dairy Goat Awareness Week (June 13-20, 2026 - 2nd to 3rd Sat in June) [American Dairy Goat Assn]
(Goat Trivia & Facts) • UK: English Wine Week (June 20-28, 2026)
[Wines of Great Britain] • UK: [National Picnic Week] (June 15-21, 2026)
(Picnic Trivia & Facts)
On this day in:1484 The date given by Robert Burton in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy' (1621) for when the Pied Piper led all the children of Hamelin, Germany away.
See July 22, 1376 for more info. 1819 At 6 p.m. the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the American steamship SS Savannah, arrived at Liverpool, England. It had sailed from Savannah, Georgia on May 22, 1819. 1837 The beginning of the Victorian Era. King William IV died and his 18 year old niece Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her reign lasted for 63 years. 1861 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born. He discovered what we now call 'vitamins,' essential nutrients needed to maintain health.
(Vitamin Facts & Trivia) 1948 The TV show 'Toast of the Town' premiers on CBS with Ed Sullivan as the host. 1964 'Chapel of Love' by Dixie Cups is #1 on the charts 1972 Howard Deering Johnson died (born Feb 2, 1897). Founder of Howard Johnson's chain of restaurants and motels.
(Howard Johnson Biography - Howard Johnson’s Trivia) 1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline opened. It takes oil 38 days to travel 800 miles from the fields in Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.
(Alaska Food Trivia) 2004 Bacardi agrees to acquire Grey Goose Vodka.
(The Bacardi ‘Bat’ -- Vodka: Spirit of Water) 2008 Wilbur Hardee died (born Aug 15, 1918). Founder of fast food chain Hardee's in 1960.
(see also Sept 3, 1960 and May 5, 1961) 2008 Water on Mars! NASA announced that its Phoenix Mars Lander had uncovered about eight small pieces of water ice. (Water Trivia & Facts) 2020 Dryers Ice Cream will change name of 'Eskimo Pie' to 'Edy's Pie' due to its racially tinged name. (The Edy's name is a nod to candy maker Joseph Edy, one of the founders of Dreyer's). (Eskimo Pie Trivia) 2020 Coronavirus: National Restaurant Association reports that the restaurant industry losses tied to the coronavirus crises total $120 billion; Cruise lines suspend all trips from U.S. ports until Sept 15.
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