June 12, 1997

On this date in history :

101 - Beefaroni invented by Mayans

107 - Beefaroni recipe lost

1199 - Thomas Jefferson has not yet been born.

1237 - Luigi Boyardee, of Italy, finds a bottle washed up on the beach in Sicily. Within the bottle is the recipe for beefaroni.

1777 - The first version of the Macarena is created by Iranian prime minister, Doug McKnight.

1990 - June 12 is accepted by the United Nations as "Beefaroni Day", in honor of the bizarre trio of "beefaroni coincidences" on June 12. To celebrate Beefaroni Day, Lawson eats 118 pounds of beefaroni smothered in 65 blocks of Velveeta.

1997 - "The X-Files" airs on Fox Network, where Scully and Moulder investigate the beefaroni coincidences.

1997 - Davisson updates his web page.


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