This day in history September 13

This is certainly illustrious day in history inasmuch as it is the day that Margaret Sanger was born in 1879. Ms.Sanger is hailed as one of the greatest women of the 20th century since she abandoned nursing as a career in 1912 to devote herself to the birth-conrol movement that would ultimately become Planned Parenthood. Of course today Planned Parenthood is a leading advocate not just of birth control but also the death of unwanted babies.

It is also on this day that in 1943 Chiang Kai-sheck became the president of China. He would driven out of China after the Second World War and become the leader of what was called "Free China" on the island of Taiwan.

On a much sweeter note it is on this day that Milton Snavely Hershey was born in 1857 in Pennsylvania. Here is a man who added joy and flavor to millions of people. I say we should have a chocolate party in honor of dear old Milton.

This is the word Britannica has on Milton Snavely Hershey:

Following an incomplete rural school education, Hershey was apprenticed at age 15 to a confectioner in Lancaster, Pa. After completing his apprenticeship in 1876 he set up his own candy shop in Philadelphia, but the venture failed six years later. After an attempt to manufacture candy in New York City also ended in failure, Hershey returned to Lancaster, where his innovative use of fresh milk in caramels proved enormously successful. He set up the Lancaster Caramel Company, which continued to make caramels in the 1890s while Hershey became increasingly interested in chocolate making. In 1900 Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000, after which he concentrated on perfecting a formula for chocolate bars. In 1903 he began building at the site of what became Hershey, Pa., a factory that became the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant. Based on the popularity of its milk chocolate bars, his new company grew rapidly despite Hershey's refusal to advertise its products. The company town of Hershey received many public amenities under his firm but benevolent control. In 1918 Hershey turned over the bulk of his fortune to the M.S. Hershey Foundation, which supports the Milton Hershey School, a vocational school founded by him.