Happy Birthday RIP “Eve Arden”(Eunice Quedens 1908–1990) “Al Lewis”(Alexander Meister 1923–2006) Gary Collins(1938–2012) Cloris Leachman(1926–2021) Gerald Delouise(“Burt Young” 1940–2013) ; Adrian Pasdar–60 Jeffrey Timmons–52 Johnny Galecki–50 Kunal Nayyar–44 Kirsten Dunst–43 Dianna Agron–39 ; 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor ; 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri. It is credited with the waffle-style ice cream cone invention/creation and first mass sales of it in the USA. It was a result an ice cream vendor running out of paper cups.A Syrian concessionaire named Ernest A. Hamwi offered a solution by curling a waffle cookie into a receptacle for the ice cream. Cotton candy was invented in the United States in 1897 by a dentist named William Morrison and a confectioner named John C. Wharton. They introduced it at the World’s Fair where it was marketed as “fairy floss.” This locale became home to Forest Park which is still the location of the region’s major cultural institutions—the Saint Louis Zoo, Art Museum, History Museum, Science Center and the Muny Opera.