Monday, March 18, 2013

Daily Factoid

Historic Happenings
On this day in 1897, Dr. John Kellogg served the world's first cornflakes to his patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan.
- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Thu 7 Mar 2013



Poor Richard's Advice
If you could not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1743
- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar;  Fri 8 Feb 2013

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