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[IceWizard]

Monday 12 Sep 2016

National Chocolate Milk Shake Day



Dating from 1885, Chocolate Milk Shake Day celebrates a drink loved by old and young alike.

Originally served in bars, a milk shake was an alcoholic concoction of whisky, eggs and cream. If the customer enjoyed the drink, he shook hands and tipped the barman.

By 1900, the whisky was replaced with chocolate, vanilla or strawberry syrup.

In 1922, a Walgreen’s employee added Horlick’s malted milk powder to the mixture and the first malted shake was born.

When Steven Poplawski invented the electric blender in 1922, the texture of milkshakes changed from smooth, thick and creamy to the frothy airy consistency loved today.

Celebrate this special day by going out with friends and family for chocolate shakes at a traditional soda fountain or check out recipes and blend some different chocolate shakes at home.

And don’t forget the whipped cream!



And



Programmers' Day





Computers, technology and software makes the modern world go around – but for every piece of clever software, there’s a programmer (and often teams of programmers) behind the scenes, solving problems with clever code, cloud security solutions, and intense development projects.

Spare a thought for these digital pioneers on Programmers’ Day!

Programmers’ Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year – chosen because this is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, and the highest power of two which is less than 365.

Research shows… Lots of people celebrate this day on January 7th, which seems to be the original (though unofficial) date for the celebration.

In 2009, however, the government of Russia declared the day to be a professional holiday, and set the date as September 13th (Sept 12th on leap years)

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Yao Ming - 36



Jesse Owens - (1913-1980)



Louis CK - 49



George Jones - (1931-2013)



Barry White - (1944-2003)



Henry Hudson - (1575-1611)

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September 12th

2007: The surviving members of Led Zeppelin announced that they will reform for a one-off concert in London to raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund.

2002: The house that Nirvana singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain lived in as from age 11 to 15 was put up for sale on eBay and eventually sold for $210,000. In 2000 the house was valued at $52,660.

1999: Graham Nash broke both of his legs in Hawaii after his boat was hit by a large wave while he was sailing.

1990: Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announced that they would be leaving Fleetwood Mac upon completion of their tour in support of Behind the Mask. McVie would re-join in 1995 and Nicks re- joined in 1997.

1989: Aerosmith released their tenth studio album Pump which went on to reach number five on the Billboard 200 Album Chart and sell seven million copies in the U.S.

1984: Metallica signed with Elektra Records which would shortly re-release their first two albums Kill ‘Em All and Ride the Lightning.

1975: Pink Floyd released their seventh studio album Wish You Were Here which went on to reach number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and sell six million copies in the U.S. alone.

1970: At the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, a tribute concert to Woody Guthrie was held starring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie.

1970: Chicago peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “25 or 6 to 4” which was their second top ten single in the U.S.



Birthdays:

Neil Peart - Brummer for Rush born in 1952