History Blog

April 30

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)–82 Adrian Pasdar–57 Jeffrey Timmons–49 Johnny Galecki–47 Kunal Nayyar–41 Kirsten Dunst–40 Dianna Agron–36 ; 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 is a result of not having enough clean dishes to serve the Ice cream so they create the sugar cones as items to serve to Ice Cream scoops.