<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Gingerbread Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Gingerbread):
'Gingerbread is a sweet food-product flavored with ginger and typically
using honey or molasses (treacle) rather than sugar. Gingerbread foods
vary, ranging from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger
biscuit. The different types likely share a common origin.
Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French
gingebras) referred to preserved ginger. It then referred to a confection
made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the
French term pain d'épices (literally "spice bread") or the German
term Lebkuchen or Pfefferkuchen (pepperbread, literally: pepper cake). The
term Leb(en) is unspecified in the German language. It can mean Leben
(life) or Laib (loaf), while the last term comes from the wide range of
spices used in this product.
Gingerbread was brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Gregory of
Nicopolis (Gregory Makar) (Grégoire de Nicopolis). He left Nicopolis
Pompeii, to live in Bondaroy (France), near the town of Pithiviers. He
stayed there for seven years, and taught gingerbread baking to French
Christians. He died in 999.
During the 13th century, gingerbread was brought to Sweden by German
immigrants. In 15th-century Germany, a gingerbread guild controlled
production. Early references from the Vadstena Abbey show how the Swedish
nuns were baking gingerbread to ease indigestion in 1444. It was the custom
to bake white biscuits and paint them as window decorations.
The first documented trade of gingerbread biscuits dates to the 17th
century, where they were sold in monasteries, pharmacies, and town square
farmers' markets. In Medieval England gingerbread was thought to have
medicinal properties. One hundred years later, the town of Market Drayton
in Shropshire, UK became known for its gingerbread, as is proudly displayed
on their town's welcome sign. The first recorded mention of gingerbread
being baked in the town dates to 1793, although it was probably made
earlier, as ginger had been stocked in high street businesses since the
1640s. Gingerbread became widely available in the 18th century.
- From Wikipedia (Ginger):
'Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant in the family
Zingiberaceae whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used
as a spice or a folk medicine
It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall
bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. Ginger is in the family
Zingiberaceae, to which also belong turmeric (Curcuma longa), cardamom
(Elettaria cardamomum), and galangal. Ginger originated in the tropical
rainforest in Southern Asia. Although ginger no longer grows wild, it is
thought to have originated on the Indian subcontinent. The ginger plants
grown in India show the largest amount of genetic variation. The larger the
number of genetic variations, the longer the plant has grown in that
region. Ginger was exported to Europe via India in the first century AD as
a result of the lucrative spice trade and was used extensively by the
Romans.
In 100 grams, ground dried ginger (10% water) provides numerous essential
nutrients in high content, particularly the dietary mineral manganese as a
multiple of its Daily Value In a typical spice serving amount of one US
tablespoon or 5 g, however, ginger powder provides negligible content of
essential nutrients, with the exception of manganese present as 79% of DV
(USDA database).
Due to its higher content of water (80%), raw ginger root has lower overall
nutrient content when expressed per 100 grams.
[The Hankster says] I enjoy hot gingerbread with a cup of coffee. However, I like ginger cookies with a tall glass of cold milk.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Cancer Survivors Day'.
First Sunday in June, since 1987, in the U.S.A.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'International Cancer Survivors Day'. From South Africa.
* 'Bed Bug Awareness Week'. June 5-11. By the National Pest Management
Association .
* 'National Headache Awareness Week'. During the first full week of June.
By the National Headache Foundation.
* 'Rip Current Awareness Week'. By National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
* 'Sun Safety Week'. June 5-11. In the U.S.A., by the Entertainment
Industries Council via it's Sun Safety Alliance.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Pet Appreciation Week'. By Hartz.
o Other:
* 'Canadian Forces Day'. Celebrating the Canadian Armed Forces.
* 'World Environment Day'. A U.N. observance since 1972.
<> Historical events on June 5
* 'In 1837, The Republic of Texas incorporates Houston. .
- From Wikipedia: Houston is the most populous city in Texas and the
fourth-most populous city in the United States, located in Southeast Texas
near the Gulf of Mexico. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239
million within a land area of 599.6 square miles (1,553 km2), it also is
the largest city in the Southern United States, as well as the seat of
Harris County. It is the principal city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar
Land, which is the fifth-most populated metropolitan area in the United
States.
Houston was founded in 1836 near the banks of Buffalo Bayou (now known as
Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city was
named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic
of Texas and had commanded and won at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles
(40 km) east of where the city was established. The burgeoning port and
railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced
continual surges in the city's population. In the mid-20th century, Houston
became the home of the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest
concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson
Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.
* 'In 1876, Bananas become popular in US after introduction at Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the
first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in
Philadelphia. Officially named the International Exhibition of Arts,
Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine, it was held in Fairmount
Park along the Schuylkill River on fairgrounds designed by Herman J.
Schwarzmann. Nearly 10 million visitors attended the exhibition and
thirty-seven countries participated in it.
A new technology on display were air-powered tools along with the
mechanical calculator by George B. Grant. John A. Roebling's Sons and Co.
also displayed their 5 ¾ inch diameter slice of cable that was going to be
used for the Brooklyn Bridge. Besides machinery, visitors could also find
new foods such as bananas, popcorn and Heinz ketchup.
* 'In 1883, The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Orient Express was the name of a long-distance
passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des
Wagons-Lits (CIWL).
On June 5, 1883, the first Express d'Orient left Paris for Vienna. Vienna
remained the terminus until October 4, 1883. The train was officially
renamed Orient Express in 1891.
The original route, which first ran on October 4, 1883, was from Paris,
Gare de l'Est, to Giurgiu in Romania via Munich and Vienna. At Giurgiu,
passengers were ferried across the Danube to Ruse, Bulgaria, to pick up
another train to Varna. They then completed their journey to Constantinople
by ferry. In 1885, another route began operations, this time reaching
Istanbul via rail from Vienna to Belgrade and Niš, carriage to Plovdiv and
rail again to Istanbul. In 1889, the train's eastern terminus became Varna
in Bulgaria, where passengers could take a ship to Constantinople. On June
1, 1889, the first non-stop train to Istanbul left Paris (Gare de l'Est).
Istanbul remained its easternmost stop until May 19, 1977. The eastern
terminus was the Sirkeci Terminal by the Golden Horn. Ferry service from
piers next to the terminal would take passengers across the Bosphorus to
Haydarpasa Terminal, the terminus of the Asian lines of the Ottoman
Railways.
* 'In 1956, Elvis Presley introduces his new single, 'Hound Dog, on The
Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip
movements. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Presley made the first of two appearances on NBC's
Milton Berle Show on April 3. His performance, on the deck of the USS
Hancock in San Diego, prompted cheers and screams from an audience of
sailors and their dates
The second Milton Berle Show appearance
came on June 5 at NBC's Hollywood studio, amid another hectic tour. Berle
persuaded the singer to leave his guitar backstage, advising, Let 'em see
you, son. During the performance, Presley abruptly halted an uptempo
rendition of Hound Dog with a wave of his arm and launched into a slow,
grinding version accentuated with energetic, exaggerated body movements.
Presley's gyrations created a storm of controversy. Newspaper critics Jack
Gould of The New York Times wrote, Mr. Presley has no discernible singing
ability. ... His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the
stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. ... His
one specialty is an accented movement of the body ... primarily identified
with the repertoire of the blond bombshells of the burlesque runway. Ben
Gross of the New York Daily News opined that popular music has reached its
lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. ...
Elvis, who rotates his pelvis ... gave an exhibition that was suggestive
and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to
dives and bordellos Ed Sullivan, whose own variety show was the nation's
most popular, declared him unfit for family viewing To Presley's
displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as Elvis the Pelvis,
which he called one of the most childish expressions I ever heard, comin'
from a adult
* 'In 1956, Gene Vincent's 'Be-Bop-A-Lula' was released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Be-Bop-A-Lula is a rockabilly song first recorded in
1956 by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps.
The writing of the song is credited to Gene Vincent and his manager, Bill
Sheriff Tex Davis. Evidently the song originated in 1955, when Vincent was
recuperating from a motorcycle accident at the US Navy hospital in Norfolk,
Virginia. There, he met Donald Graves, who supposedly wrote the words to
the song while Vincent wrote the tune. (Cf. Money Honey by the Drifters,
1953). The song came to the attention of Davis, who allegedly bought out
Graves' rights to the song for some $50 (sources varyas to the exact
amount), and had himself credited as the lyric writer. Davis claimed that
he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song Don't Bring
Lulu Vincent himself sometimes claimed that he wrote the words inspired by
the comic strip, Little Lulu: I come in dead drunk and stumble over the
bed. And me and Don Graves were looking at this bloody book it was called
Little Lulu. And I said, Hell, man, it's 'Be-Bop-a-Lulu.' And he said
'Yeah, man, swinging.' And we wrote this song.
* 'In 1981, The 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report' of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles,
California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with
weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases
of AIDS. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) were
reported in what turned out to be the first reporting of AIDS in the
medical literature (June 5, 1981). Los Angeles-based general practitioner
Joel Weisman and immunologist Michael S. Gottlieb of the UCLA Medical
Center had encountered a series of gay male patients with symptoms that
appeared to be immune system disorders including significant loss of weight
and swollen lymph nodes, accompanied by fever and rashes, in addition to
two patients with chronic diarrhea, depressed white blood cell counts and
fungal infections. Gottlieb diagnosed these and a number of his other
patients as having pneumocystis pneumonia. A report they jointly wrote and
published in the June 5, 1981, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report, described their patients as 5 young men, all active homosexuals,
were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3
different hospitals in Los Angeles, California of which wo of the patients
died by the time of the original report. This notice has been recognized
as the first published report marking the official start of the AIDS
pandemic and as "the first report on AIDS in the medical literature".
* 'In 1984, Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' becomes #1. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Time After Time is a song by American singer-songwriter
Cyndi Lauper. It was recorded by Lauper for her debut studio album, She's
So Unusual (1983), with Rob Hyman (co-writer and founding member of the
rock band The Hooters), contributing backing vocals. The track was produced
by Rick Chertoff and released as a single on January 27, 1984. It was the
second single to be released from the album and became Lauper's first #1
hit in the U.S. The song was written in the album's final stages, after
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, She Bop and All Through the Night had been
written. The writing began with the title, which Lauper had seen in TV
Guide magazine, referring to the 1979 science fiction film Time After Time.
* 'In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas
coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over
Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the
costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical storm that
devastated southeast Texas in June of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season.
The first storm of the season, Allison lasted unusually long for a June
storm, remaining tropical or subtropical for 15 days. The storm developed
from a tropical wave in the northern Gulf of Mexico on June 4, 2001, and
struck the upper Texas coast shortly thereafter. It drifted northward
through the state, turned back to the south, and re-entered the Gulf of
Mexico. The storm continued to the east-northeast, made landfall on
Louisiana, then moved across the southeast United States and Mid-Atlantic.
Allison was the first storm since Tropical Storm Frances in 1998 to strike
the northern Texas coastline.
No. 1 song
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in June
Food
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Georgia Blueberry Month
Dairy Month
National Candy Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
Health
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS)
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Fireworks Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
Mens Health Education and Awareness Month
Migraine Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
World Infertility Month
Animal / Pets
Adopt-A-Cat Month
Adopt A Shelter Cat Month
National Pet Preparedness Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month
Other
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Black Music Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Effective Communications Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
International Surf Music Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Oceans Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Women's Golf Month
June is:
June origin (from Wikipedia): Perhaps to honor goddess Juno, or from the Latin word iuniores (younger ones).
"is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the
beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June."
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