October 30 is:
National Candy Corn Day
Foodimentary.com
Did you know candy corn started as a gimmick to prove the goodness of corn sugar?
One serving of candy corn contains only about 140 calories.
Candy corn has 3.57 calories per kernel.
More than 35 million pounds of candy corn will be produced this year. That equates to nearly 9 billion pieces — enough to circle the moon nearly four times if laid end-to-end.
Halloween accounts for 75% of the annual candy corn production.
A cup of candy corn has fewer calories than a cup of raisins.
Mischief Night
also known as Devil’s Night, Gate Night, Goosey Night, Moving Night, Cabbage Night and Mat Night.
Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Pope Alexander VI and his son, Cesare Borgia, in the Papal Palace in 1501 where fifty prostitutes or courtesans were in attendance for the entertainment of the guests. After the courtesans’ clothes were auctioned off, chestnuts were strewn all over the floor, and the guests were invited to observe as the naked courtesans gathered them up. According to contemporary reports, the onlookers did not remain onlookers for long, making full use of the courtesans provided. Pope Alexander and his family were among the spectators, and there were reports of prizes being awarded for displays of exceptional virility.
Birthday of John Adams (October 30, 1735), second President of the United States. On his second night in the White House, John Adams wrote, “I pray Heaven to bestow the best Blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule beneath this roof.” Franklin Roosevelt arranged for those words to be inscribed on a mantel in the State Dining Room of the White House.
Helena, Montana was founded in 1864 after four prospectors discovered gold at “Last Chance Gulch”
In 1938 – Orson Welles broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, breaking the baseball color barrier.