Good Afternoon. Did you turn your clocks back yet? U.S., Canada & Mexico Daylight Savings Time ends. (March 10 to Nov 3, 2013). Today is Sandwich Day (see 1718 below), St. Huberts Day, patron of hunters & St. Martin de Porres, patron of innkeepers, barbers, and against rats. Today is also St. Pirmin, patron of against snakebits and poisoning. On this day in 1633 Bernardino Ramazzini was born. An Italian physician, he was the first to note the relationship between worker’s illnesses and their work environment. Considered the founder of occupational medicine. In 1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich was born. (Some sources list November 13). Captain Cook named the Sandwich Islands after him (now known as Hawaii). The Earl is supposed to have invented the sandwich as a quick meal so as not to interrupt his gambling sessions. In 1832 Sir John Leslie died. A Scottish physicist and mathematician, he was the first to create ice artificially (freeze water artificially). He used an air pump apparatus. On this date in 1841 Johannes Eugenius Bulow Warming was born. A Danish botanist, he was one of the founders of the science of plant ecology. In 1863 J.T. Alden was issued a patent for an improved method of manufacturing dried yeast. In 1893 Edward A. Doisy was born. He discovered vitamin K. On this date in 1895 The town of Walcott, Minnesota is destroyed by a fire that begins in a flour mill. In 1952 Frozen peas are added to the list of frozen vegetables produced by Birdseye. In 1966 Ingredients are required to be listed on food packages. The first truth in packaging law. In 1990 Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice was the number one single on the U.S. music charts.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:01:25 +0000
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