2000 Death Mary Jenkins Langston, cook, cooked peanut butter and banana sandwiches for Elvis, dies at 77 1945 Event Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends 1943 Event Meat, butter and cheese rationed in U.S. during WW II 1940 Event Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar) 1925 Event George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," premieres in New York City 1906 Birthday Jacob C van Marken, Dutch peanut butter maker, Calve-Delft 1906 Death Jacob C van Marken, peanut butter maker (Calve-Delft), dies at 60 1699 Event People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
