On This Day August 21st

  OTD

August 21st is the two hundredth-thirty-third day of the year, and there are 133 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Event

 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta.

1680 – Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Revolt.

1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

1791 – A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.

1831 – Nat Turner led enslaved Black people and free blacks in an uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, which claimed the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.

1858 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.

1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs.

1911 – Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee, steals the Mona Lisa.

1945 – Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a critical accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer (12 mi) range.

2000 – American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.

 

Birthdays

  1579 – Henri, Duke of Rohan (d. 1638)

1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter and educator (d. 1805)

1823 – Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter, and astronomer (d. 1899)

1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author, and illustrator (d. 1898)

1904 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)

1916 – Bill Lee, American actor, and singer (d. 1980)

1924 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (d. 2002)

1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player, and coach (d. 1999)

1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2020)

1952 – Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)

1973 – Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist, and businessman, co-founded Google

 

Holiday Spotlight

 National Spumoni Day

There is not much information about who started National Spumoni Day or when it was created. As a result, we decided to concentrate our efforts on figuring out who invented spumoni ice cream and when they did it. That sent us out on a fantastic ice cream adventure that we would never forget.

Spumoni is thought to have originated in Naples, Italy, sometime in the 19th century, according to most food historians. According to a 1979 “Chicago Tribune” article, an “authentic spumoni” recipe was transported to the United States from Nola, Italy in 1905 and became known as Neapolitan ice cream. In Chicago, Salvatore Lezza and his wife Lucia founded a bakery. Three layers of semifreddo were asked for in the original recipe: almond, semisweet chocolate, and stracciatella. Stracciatella is a sort of gelato that contains irregular chunks of chocolate.

The three most well-known flavors of this ice cream are primary chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. This is the type of spumoni that has become increasingly popular in the United States. Throughout Europe, Italian spumoni remained popular, and a variety of flavor combinations grew popular. The pistachio, chocolate, and cherry ice cream is known as spumoni in the United States, whereas the vanilla, chocolate, and berry ice cream is known as Italian ice cream. In the United States, however, most spumoni contain a cherry layer with cherry bits, a pistachio ice cream layer, and a chocolate layer. Hazelnut, vanilla, strawberry, and pineapple are just a handful of the other flavors available.

The best spumoni may be found in Italian neighborhoods like Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst. The most popular spumoni in Brooklyn is served at L&B Spumoni Gardens, one of the stops on our Pizza Tour. Before opening the storefront in 1939, Ludovico Barbati, the L&B in the name, began selling spumoni door to door in Brooklyn in the 1930s from a horse-drawn wagon. Unlike the Italian version, L&B’s is served in Italian ice cups, making it easier to transport. It’s a mix of ice cream and Italian ice.

Serve the spumoni cut to highlight its exquisite layers. It is also regarded as the traditional method of serving the ice cream dish. The ice cream, on the other hand, lends itself to being scooped. When initially encountering spumoni, it appears to be Neapolitan. The two ice creams are nearly identical except for the addition of fruits and nuts. Spumoni had an influence on the Neapolitan in reality. Cakes, biscuits, and other foods were impacted by it as well.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Brazilian Blowout Day

International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism

Internet Self-Care Day

National Medical Dosimetrist Day  

National Spumoni Day

Poet's Day

Senior Citizen's Day

World Goat Day