July 7, 1928 – Today was the day the first loaf of sliced bread was sold commercially. The bread came from the Chillicothe Baking Company, in Chillicothe, Missouri, and the innovation was thanks to a determined engineer named Otto Rohwedder.
The machine that Rohwedder created not only sliced the bread, but it also wrapped it.
Rohwedder had conceived of the [...]
June 7, 1977 – Following a successful anti-gay campaign led by Anita Bryant, today was the day that Dade County, Florida repealed an ordinance that had outlawed discrimination of homosexuals.
If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters. - [...]
April 6, 1954 – According to some food historians, today was the day that the first TV dinner was introduced.
The story goes that a popular food company, Swanson & Sons, had overestimated the demand for turkeys at Thanksgiving. With 500,000 pounds of surplus turkey meat about to go bad, the company came up with a [...]
