A little reason to celebrate
National Corn on the Cob Day
Food · June 11
A food day for corn on the cob: sweet summer ears, boiled or grilled, buttered and eaten straight off the cob by hand.
National days on June 11, 2027
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On this day
- 1559: Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with a party of 1,500, intending to settle on the gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico). Tristán de Luna y Arellano
- 1805: A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory. Great Fire of 1805
- 1936: Inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC. Edwin Howard Armstrong
- 1962: Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. June 1962 Alcatraz escape
- 1998: Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. Compaq
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