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Today in Food History

- The Ides of March
- National Pears Helene Day
- Capistrano has their swallows, but Hinckley, Ohio has Turkey Buzzards. They return to the town each year on (or about) this same day each year, for the summer. They winter in Dade County, Florida.

1858 Liberty Hyde Bailey was born. He was a world famous American botanist who studied cultivated plants. He was dean of Horticulture at Cornell University for 15 years.

1889 Melville Reuben Bissell died. Bissell invented the carpet sweeper in 1876. Almost every restaurant and hotel I have worked in that had carpet, also had Bissell or similar carpet sweepers.

1891 Sir Joseph William Bazalgette died. A British civil engineer, he designed the main sewer system for London.

1980 McDonald's test marketed Chicken McNuggets in Knoxville, Tennessee. They are so popular that they have to look for a second supplier.

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Today in Food History

- National Potato Chip Day
- National Pi(e) Day (2012)

1794 Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin.

1903 President Theodore Roosevelt established the first U.S. national bird sanctuary to protect pelicans and herons nesting on Pelican Island, near Sebastian, Florida.

1946 Jim Pons of the music group 'The Turtles' was born.

1958 'Tequila' by The Champs is #1 on the charts.

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