In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists
disguised as Mohawk Indians board three tea ships
and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.

The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston
Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s
Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering
East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax
and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American
tea trade.

The low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut
even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, and
many colonists viewed the act as another example of
taxation tyranny.

The term ‘Tea Party’ was not actually used at the time
and was coined in the 1830s when the Revolutionary
generation looked back with nostalgia fifty years later.

National Donut Day started in 1938 as a fundraiser for The
Salvation Army in Chicago.

Their goal was to help those in need during the Great
Depression, and to honor the Salvation Army "Lassies"
of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers.

The Original Taco House was a chain of Mexican restaurants
based in Portland, Oregon. Established by the Waddle family
in 1960, the business at one time had five locations. The last
remaining two locations closed on December 31, 2017.          

Tik Tok Restaurant 12th Avenue on Sandy where Burnside Intersects in Portland, Oregon (1950s).

The Tik Tok was Portland’s first drive-in from 1938 to 1971 — with
its "Time to Eat" sign and giant neon coffee cup.  

The Foursquare Church of Portland now owns the property where
the restaurant once stood.

Larry Shaw (1939 – 2017) the founder of Pi Day, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant
π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since
3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π, and it
was first celebrated in the United States. It was founded in
1988 by Larry Shaw a physicist at the San Francisco science
museum, the Exploratorium. Celebrations often involve eating
pie or holding pi recitation competitions. In 2009, the United
States House of Representatives supported the designation
of Pi Day.