Tomorrow's food holiday is 'National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day'.
From Wikipedia: 'A chiffon cake is a very light cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and flavorings. It is a combination of both batter and foam type (sponge type) cakes.
In.stead of the traditional cake ingredient butter or paste (such as shortening), vegetable oil is used; but this is difficult to beat enough air into. Therefore, chiffon cakes, like angel cakes and other foam cakes, achieve a fluffy texture by beating egg whites until stiff and folding them into the cake batter before baking. Its aeration properties rely on both the quality of the meringue and the chemical leaveners. Its oil-based batter is initially blended before folding into the meringue.
A chiffon cake is a cross between an oil cake and a sponge cake. It includes baking powder and vegetable oil, but the eggs are separated and the whites are beaten before being folded into the batter creating the rich flavor like an oil cake, but with a lighter texture that's more like a sponge cake. They can be baked in tube pans or layered with fillings and frostings.'
'The chiffon cake was invented in 1927 by Harry Baker, a California insurance salesman turned caterer. Baker kept the recipe secret for 20 years until he sold it to General Mills, which spread the recipe through marketing materials in the 1940s and 1950s. The name was changed to "chiffon cake" and a set of 14 recipes and variations was released to the public in a Betty Crocker pamphlet published in 1948'.
[The Hankster says] All together now, and a tall glass of cold milk. Just in time. I have just finished my last piece of today's holiday food, Black Forest Cake.
Other celebrations/observances tomorrow:
- 'National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day'. Honoring all small business owners.
[The Hankster says] I enjoy the personal attention at the mom and pop stores.
- 'Smoke and Mirrors Day'. A magicians appreciation day.
[The Hankster says] Smoke and mirrors, my most useful tools when I construct this pot.s
- 'Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day'. On March 29th, 1848 upstream ice blockages caused the falls to stop running.
Awareness / Observance Days on: March 29
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- 'Vietnam Veterans Day'. A March 29 2012 Presidential Proclamation. There is currently a Senate bill to set March 29 as a recurring observance. March 29 1973 is the date of the U.S. final withdrawl of troups.
Historical events in the past on: March 29
- In. 1886, Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
From Wikipedia: 'In April 1865, while serving as a lieutenant colonel of the Confederate Army's Third Georgia Cavalry Battalion, Georgia State Guard, Pemberton was wounded in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia. He sustained his injury from a saber with which he was slashed across his chest, and like many wounded veterans of many wars, he became addicted to the morphine used to ease the pain. As the pharmacist that he was in civilian life, Pemberton sought a cure for his addiction. In 1866, in Columbus,
Georgia , he started working on painkillers that would serve as opium-free alternatives to morphine. His first was "Dr. Tuggle's Compound Syrup of Globe Flower (Cephalanthus occidentalis)". He next began experimenting with coca and coca wines, eventually creating his own version of Vin Mariani, containing kola nut and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. According to Coca-Cola historian, Phil Mooney, Pemberton's world-famous soda was "created in Columbus, Georgia and carried to Atlanta".
With public concern about the drug addiction, depression, and alcoholism among war veterans, and "neurasthenia", as well as among "highly-strung" Southern women, Pemberton's medicine was advertised as particularly beneficial for "ladies, and all those whose sedentary employment causes nervous prostration".
- In. 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County enacted temperance legislation, Pemberton found himself forced to produce a non-alcoholic alternative to his French Wine Coca. Pemberton relied on Atlanta drugstore owner-proprietor Willis E. Venable to test, and help him perfect, the recipe for the beverage, which he formulated by trial and error. With Venable's assistance, Pemberton worked out a set of directions for its preparation that eventually included blending the base syrup with carbonated water by
accident when trying to make another glass. Pemberton decided then to sell it as a fountain drink rather than a medicine. Frank Mason Robinson came up with the name "Coca-Cola" for the alliterative sound, which was popular among other wine medicines of the time. Although the name quite clearly refers to the two main ingredients, the controversy over its cocaine content would later prompt The Coca-Cola Company to state that the name was "meaningless but fanciful". Robinson also hand wrote the
Spencerian scripton the bottles and ads. Pemberton made many health claims for his product, touting it as a "valuable brain tonic" that would cure headaches, relieve exhaustion and calm nerves, and marketed it as "delicious, refreshing, pure joy, exhilarating", and "invigorating"'.
- In. 1932, Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program.
From Wikipedia: 'Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist. Recognized as a leading American entertainer of the 20th century, Benny portrayed his character as a miser, playing his violin badly. In character, he would claim to be 39 years of age, regardless of his actual age.
'Benny was known for comic timing and the ability to create laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!" His radio and television programs, popular from the 1930s to the 1970s, were a major influence on the sitcom genre.'
'In 1929 Benny's agent, Sam Lyons, convinced Irving Thalberg, American film producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to watch Benny at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Benny signed a five-year contract with MGM, where his first role was in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. The next movie, Chasing Rainbows, did not do well, and after several months Benny was released from his contract and returned to Broadway in Earl Carroll's Vanities. At first dubious about the viability of radio, Benny grew eager to break
into thenew medium. In 1932, after a four-week nightclub run, he was invited on to Ed Sullivan's radio program, uttering his first radio spiel "This is Jack Benny talking. There will be a slight pause while you say, 'Who cares?"'.
- In. 1951, At the 23rd Academy Awards:
-- Best Picture is, All About Eve
-- Best Actor is Jos‚ Ferrer for 'Cyrano de Bergerac'
-- Best Actress is Judy Holliday for 'Born Yesterday'
-- Best Supporting Actor is George Sanders for 'All About Eve'
-- Best Supporting Actress is Josephine Hull for 'Harvey'
-- Best Song is Mona Lisa from 'Captain Carey, U.S.A.'
- In. 1962, Gene Chandler received a gold record for 'Duke of Earl'.
From Wikipedia: '"Duke of Earl" is a 1962 US number-one song, originally by Gene Chandler. It is the best known of Chandler's songs, and he subsequently dubbed himself 'The Duke of Earl'. The song was penned by Chandler, Bernice Williams, and Earl Edwards. This song was a 2002 inductee into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It has also been selected by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll'.
- In. 1961, The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
From Wikipedia: 'The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state. The amendment was proposed by the 86th Congress on June 16, 1960, and ratified by the states on March 29, 1961'.
- In. 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury.
From Wikipedia: 'Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus.
Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program (Mariner 11 and 12 were allocated to the Voyager program and redesignated Voyager 1 and Voyager 2).
The mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere, surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of Venus. Secondary objectives were to perform experiments in the interplanetary medium and to obtain experience with a dual-planet gravity assist mission. Mariner 10's science team was led by Bruce C. Murray at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.'
The spacecraft flew past Mercury three times. The first Mercury encounter took place at 20:47 UT on March 29, 1974, at a range of 703 kilometers (437 mi), passing on the shadow side'.
- In. 1974, Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the third century BCE.
From Wikipedia: 'The Terracotta Army (Chinese: ???; literally: "Soldier-and-horse funerary statues") is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles, with the tallest being the generals. The figures include warriors, chariots and horses. Estimates from 2007 were that the three pits containing the Terracotta Army held more than 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which remained buried in the
pits nearbyQin Shi Huang's mausoleum. Other terracotta non-military figures were found in other pits, including officials, acrobats, strongmen and musicians'.
- In. 1976, At the 48th Academy Awards:
-- Best Picture is, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
-- Best Actor is Jack Nicholson for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
-- Best Actress is Louise Fletcher for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
-- Best Supporting Actor is George Burns for 'The Sunshine Boys'
-- Best Supporting Actress is Lee Grant for 'Shampoo'
-- Best Song is I'm Easy from 'Nashville'
- In. 1982, At the 54tb Academy Awards:
-- Best Picture is, Chariots of Fire
-- Best Actor is Henry Fonda for 'On Golden Pond'
-- Best Actress is Katharine Hepburn for 'On Golden Pond'
-- Best Supporting Actor is John Gielgud for 'Arthur'
-- Best Supporting Actress is Maureen Stapleton for 'Reds'
-- Best Song is Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) from Arthur'
- In. 1989, At the 61st Academy Awards:
-- Best Picture is, Rain Man
-- Best Actor is Dustin Hoffman for 'Rain Man
-- Best Actress is Jodie Foster for 'The Accused'
-- Best Supporting Actor is Kevin Kline for 'A Fish Called Wanda'
-- Best Supporting Actress is Geena Davis for 'The Accidental Tourist'
-- Best Song is Let the River Run from 'Working Girl'
- In. 1993, At the 65th Academy Awards:
-- Best Picture is, Unforgiven
-- Best Actor is Al Pacino for 'Scent of a Woman'
-- Best Actress is Emma Thompson for 'Howards End'
-- Best Supporting Actor is Gene Hackman for 'Unforgiven'
-- Best Supporting Actress is Marisa Tomei for 'My Cousin Vinny'
-- Best Song is A Whole New World from 'Aladdin'
No. 1 song
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in March
Food
National Frozen Food Month
National Noodle Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
Health
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Endometriosis Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness and Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Save Your Vision Month
Vascular Abnormalities Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Animal / Pet
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
Other
Credit Education Month
Employee Spirit Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Mirth Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Mad for Plaid Month
Music In Our Schools Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Kite Month (3/28-5/3)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play The Recorder Month
Women's History Month
Youth Art Month
March is:
March origin (from Wikipedia):
'The name of March comes from Latin Martius, the first month of the earliest
Roman calendar. It was named for Mars, the Roman god of war who was also
regarded as a guardian of agriculture and an ancestor of the Roman people
through his sons Romulus and Remus.
'
March
'is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere,
the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March.
The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of
spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the
Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the
Northern Hemisphere's March.
'
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