Daily Food Fact: NECCO ‘conversation hearts” were first manufactured in 1866 called “Motto Hearts”

Events of February 14

Married on this day:

• February 14, 1984, Elton John and Ms. Renate Blauel

• February 14, 1991, Leeza Gibbons, talk show host and Stephen Meadows

• February 14, 1991, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid

• February 6, 1994, Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Founder and Melinda Ledbetter.
• February 14, 1994 Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (51) wed Deborah Koons
• February 14, 1994, Roseanne Barr and Ben Thomas, her ex-bodyguard.
• February 19, 1995, Pamela Anderson, Baywatch Star and Tommy Lee, Rock star
• February 14, 1996, Prince/The Artist married Mayte Garcia.
• February 14, 1998 Sharon Stone & Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Examiner Executive Editor

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

• 1779 RIP Captain James Cook, British explorer who charted and named many Pacific Islands, including the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).