Today In History
Today is Tuesday, May 31, the 151st day of 2010. There are 214 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:
1043 - Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England.
1520 - After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence.
1790 - The U.S. copyright law is enacted.
1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applies for a patent for flaked cereal.
1889 - Floods at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills more than 2,000.
1899 - George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for the Uganda Railway in a swamp where Kenya's capital, Nairobi, later grows.
1902 - Peace of Vereeniging ends Boer War, in which British casualties numbered 5,774 killed and 16,000 deaths from disease, against 4,000 Boers killed in action.
1910 - The Transvaal and the Orange Free State are united with the Cape Colony to form the self-governing Union of South Africa under the British crown.
1911 - Gen. Porfirio Diaz goes into exile in France, ending 34 years as strongman president of Mexico.
1916 - The British and German fleets meet in the world's largest naval battle, a largely inconclusive one off Jutland, Denmark. The German fleet stays in port for the rest of World War I.
1931 - Oil is found in Bahrain, the first petroleum discovery in the Arab world.
1937 - The German fleet bombards Almeria, Spain, in reprisal for Loyalist air attacks on its battleship Deutschland.
1961 - South Africa becomes independent republic outside British Commonwealth.
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, World War II Nazi Gestapo chief, is executed by hanging after Israeli court rejects appeal.
1966 - Court in the Congo sentences former Premier Evariste Kimba and three others to death on charges of plotting to overthrow President Joseph Mobutu.
1970 - Earthquake hits Peru, leaving more than 66,000 dead, 20,000 missing and 200,000 injured.
1973 - U.S. Senate votes to cut off all funds for U.S. bombing operations in Cambodia.
1976 - Indonesia completes takeover of East Timor.
1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is completed after three years of work.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the United States for summit talks with U.S. President George Bush.
1991 - Angolan peace accords are signed in Lisbon, Portugal , ending a 16-year civil war.
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1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applies for a patent for flaked cereal. 1899 - George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for the Uganda Railway in a swamp where Kenya's capital, Nairobi, later grows. 1902 - Peace of Vereeniging
This Day in History: In 1884, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented flaked cereal. In 1907, the first taxis to operate in the United States arrived in New York City. In 1929, in Beverly, Mass., reindeer were born in the United States for the first time.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, created the cereal in an effort to reduce a woman's passion. He believed that sweet or spicy foods could
And earlier this year, Michael Whited stopped buying the Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats that he loves and substituted a value brand sold at Walmart: Malt-O-Meal's Frosted Mini Spooners, which provides nearly twice as much cereal for about the same price
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History USHenry Perky invented shredded wheat cereal in 1893. The wheat is first cooked in water until its moisture content reaches about 50%. It is then tempered, allowing moisture to diffuse evenly into the grain. The grain then passes through a set of rollers with grooves in one side, yielding a web of shredded wheat strands. Many webs are stacked together, and this moist stack of strands is crimped at regular intervals to produce individual pieces of cereal with the strands attached at each end. These then go into an oven, where they are baked until their moisture content is reduced to 5%. The Natural Food Company was based at Niagara Falls, NY in 1901. It became the Shredded Wheat Company in 1904. It was bought by Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) in December 1928. US production moved to Naperville in Illinois in 1954, where it is still made. In 1993, Nabisco sold the brand to Kraft General Foods, but it was still under the Nabisco name until 1999, whereupon it was given by the phrase “Nabisco brought to you by Post”. Canadian production has been at Niagara Falls, Ontario, since 1904 due to nearby hydro-electric power. US production is also at Jonesboro, Arkansas. UK HistoryThe original company opened a factory in Welwyn Garden City (UK) in 1926 at which time Welgar was its registered trade mark, which became part of Nabisco in 1928.The tall concrete cereal silos that form part of the factory are a local landmark and are listed structures, built by Peter Lind & Company of London. In 1988 Nabisco sold the UK site to Rank Hovis McDougall (who made own-label cereals for supermarkets), whose breakfast cereals division briefly became The Shredded Wheat Company. In 1990 RHM sold the site to Cereal Partners. Now, all Shredded Wheat is made at Staverton near Bath, as the Welwyn Garden City site was shut down in 2008. Also, “Bitesize”, “Fruitful” and “Honey Nut” Shredded Wheat are made in the UK. AdvertisingShredded Wheat has a particular place in UK popular culture due to a long-running TV advertising campaign. The Three Shredded Wheat advert suggested that the cereal was so nourishing that it was impossible to eat three. Even a black hole was shown as exploding when the third biscuit was sucked into it. Phrases such as I bet you can’t eat three and He must have eaten three were in common use as humorous remarks in the 1970s. A later UK poster advert for Carling Black Label showed a bowl with four Shredded Wheat and the caption “I bet he drinks Carling Black Label”.Bernard Manning, the UK comedian, made this into a joke: Why does Arthur Scargill eat three Shredded Wheat? Answer: He eats two, the other one he puts on his head; (Scargill was known for having a particularly bad toupee). Trademark of the term “shredded wheat”In the United States Supreme Court case Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. (1938), National Biscuit Co. sued Kellogg, attempting to enjoin Kellogg from using shredded wheat as a trade name and from manufacturing the cereal in its pillow-shaped form. The Supreme Court ruled that shredded wheat was generic and not trademarkable; and that in any case, when the first patent for shredded wheat machinery expired in 1912, the right to apply the name “shredded wheat” to the product passed into the public domain along with that patent. ServingThe shape and inherent dryness of the standard, large version of the cereal pieces led to the satirical nickname “Baled Hay”. Sugar and milk are typically added to the standard cereal to enhance its taste and texture. Shredded Wheat is often eaten, the “Canadian Way” pouring warm milk over full size pieces with butter and lightly salted. See alsoFrosted Mini-Wheats, a brand of frosted shredded wheatRaisin Wheats, a brand of filled shredded wheatWeetabix another wheat-based biscuit cereal. External linksKellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co., 305 U.S 111 (1938) at FindlawShredded wheat history chronologyClosure of Welwyn Garden City plantPicture of Welwyn Garden City factory, Feb 2007, at Geograph.org.ukDarling Associates project to redevelop Welwyn Garden City factoryDigital Images related to Shredded Wheat Production in North America Niagara Falls Public Library (Ont.)food product design site1905 Advertisement References^ Entry in The Free Dictionary^ Butterfield, Richard J: The Industrial Archaeology of the Twentieth Century: The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City in Industrial Archaeology Review: Volume 16 (1994), page 196 ff.
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