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Today in History

Today is Saturday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2022. There are 182 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.

On this date:

In 1566, French astrologer, physician and professed prophesier Nostradamus died in Salon (sah-LOHN’).

In 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

In 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau (gee-TOH’) at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)

In 1917, rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly Blacks, are believed to have died in the violence.

Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. president to be born a United States citizen. All previous presidents were born British subjects.

I don't think citrate is a secret ingredient at all of course.  The term apparently is "emlusifying salt", which is new to me.  Interesting, sodium replaces calcium which otherwise crosslinks the proteins in cheese.  I did not know this.  Ha.



Emulsifying salts – EU Specialty Food Ingredients

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
West Point Opens (1802)
Before it was home to young men and women training to be US Army officers, West Point, New York, was the site of a military post. Congress signed legislation establishing the United States Military Academy there in 1802, though it was initially an apprentice school for military engineers. Its curriculum broadened in 1866, and, after World War I, Superintendent Douglas MacArthur pushed for major changes in the physical fitness and athletic programs.

A diamond is hardest  because it's pure carbon where each carbon is attached to the next in the ideal geometry.  Boron nitride in cubic form is second hardest.

Graphite is also pure carbon in a different structure.  

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Hartford Circus Fire (1944)
The Hartford Circus Fire was one of the worst fire disasters in US history. While thousands of spectators in Hartford, Connecticut, were enjoying an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, a fire broke out in the tent. The big top, waterproofed with a coating of paraffin and gasoline, quickly collapsed in flames, trapping hundreds beneath it. About 169 people died.