Feb 25 is National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day
National Clam Chowder Day In his epic Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote an ode to clam chowder that is so delectable, simply reading the words gets us craving a bowl.
“Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazelnuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt.”
The two most prevalent types of Clam Chowder are New England or “white” clam chowder and Rhode Island / Manhattan or “red” clam chowder. In 1939 a bill was introduced into legislature in the state of Maine that would make the use of tomatoes in clam chowder against the law.
138 – The Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius, effectively making Pius his successor.
February 25, 1947 – Prussia no longer exists from this date.
1836 – Samuel Colt was granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1841 – Birthday of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (February 25, 1841), French painter and sculptor, leader in the development of the Impressionist style. Photo: Luncheon of the Boating Party. More examples of his art can be found at Wikiart
1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull – human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. It was later revealed to be a hoax.
1913 The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration.
Because of a generous $3,000 exemption, plus an additional $1,000 exemption for married couples, the tax applied to fewer than four percent of the population.
1919 – Oregon placed a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtained German citizenship by naturalization, which allowed him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1956 – In his speech “On the Personality Cult and its Consequences“, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounced the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.