September 23 is:
National Great American Pot Pie Day
Checkers Day (See 1952)
National White Chocolate Day
From Foodimentary.com:
- White chocolate originates from the cocoa (cacao) plant, but it is not ‘chocolate.’
- According to the FDA, to be called ‘chocolate’ a product must contain chocolate liquor, which is what gives it the biter intense chocolate flavor (and color) to dark and milk chocolates.
- White chocolate contains cocoa butter, milk solids, sugar, lecithin and flavorings (usually including vanilla).
- Cocoa butter is the fat from cocoa beans, extracted from the cocoa beans during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder. Cocoa butter has very little ‘chocolate’ flavor.
- Cocoa butter is one of the ingredients used to make real chocolate, it gives chocolate the ability to remain solid at room temperature, yet melt easily in the mouth.
- Cocoa butter is one of the most stable fats known, containing natural antioxidants that prevent rancidity and give it a storage life of 2 to 5 years. It is used for its smooth texture in foods (including chocolate) and in cosmetics and soaps.
Birthday of William Holmes McGuffey (September 23, 1800), American educator; author the the McGuffey readers
In 1845, the Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, was founded in New York. Creating a club for the ball players called for a formal set of rules for each member to adhere to, foremost among them to “have the reputation of a gentleman”.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed on September 23, 1932. he two kingdoms of the Hejaz and Nejd were united as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and that date is now a national holiday called Saudi National Day
Checkers Day or Dog in Politics Day In 1952, Richard Nixon made his “Checkers speech”. As the Vice-Presidential candidate, running with Eisenhower, Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself and stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog who had been named Checkers by the Nixon children, thus giving the address its popular name.
From: Today in Science
WD-40
In 1953, WD-40 was invented and recorded for the first time in the Rocket Chemical Company’s logbook. It was the Water Displacement 40th test, and first successful, formula created by Norm Larsen, for a lubricating penetrating oil intended to displace water for rust prevention. In 1958, it was packaged in cans and sold to the consumer market in San Diego, California, where the company was founded in 1953. It was named WD-40, its original test designation. The name of the company Larsen founded reflects its original purpose to supply materials used in manufacture of nuclear missiles, for which WD-40 was designed to coat structural components and prevent corrosion. After wide success with its versatile, but only product, the company name was changed in 1969 to the WD-40 Company Inc.
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The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) was released in 2002.