Today in History Special Cocktail Edition

National Pool Opening Day Strawberry Lemonade Frose St. Louis Mary de Montfort Ginger Cranberry Spritz Uma Thurman Uma Thurman Cocktail Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Sugar Rum Cherries Willie Nelson Willie Nelson Chicken-Fried Steak 1759 John Adlum was born KY Catawba Punch 1884 Michael Thomas Bass Jr Died Brown and Bitter National Bubble Tea Day Bubble Tea Kirsten Dunst Uncle Julian’s Rarebit The Sweet and Boozy Interview 1900 Casey Jones Died Moonarita Cannonball Express Cocktail 1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened St. Louis Ice Water Cocktail St. Louis Iced Tea 1955 “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” Apple Blossom Cocktail National BBQ Month Grilled Peaches with Bacardi Gold Rum May Day International Workers Day Mai Bowle 1893 The World’s Columbian Expo in Chicago opened. Orange Cider Original Orange Cider (Drink of the Gods) Orange Cider (Soul Destroying Version) 1931 Empire State Building Opens Empire State Elixer 1519 Leonardo da Vinci Died Acquarossa (Rose Water 1942 Moonlight Cocktail hit #1 Moonlight Cocktail 1960 The Queen e Elizabeth 2 British Luxury Liner set sail Chilled Nectarine Soup Rose Lassi 1974 Filming for Jaws began at Martha’s Vineyard Jaws Breakfast Blood in the Water Cocktail 1939 The Andrew Sisters recorded ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ Beer Barrel Polka Bratwurst 1944 Most Wartime Meat Rationing ended in the US 1940’s Orangeade Drink 1947 Sylvester tried to eat Tweety Bird Tweety Bird Cocktail

Passover The First Cup Korean Grape Juice The Second Cup Old Fashioned Grape Juice An Extra Cup Boiled Grape Juice The 3rd Cup Arabian Pulpy Grape Juice The 4th Cup Grape Juice Concentrate Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholson Cocktail Jelly Bean Day Jelly Bean Copycat 1878 The White House hosted the first EAster Monday Egg Roll Sunny’s Banana and Berries Smoothie 1991 McDonald’s opened in Beijing China Shamrock Shake Copycat Chipper Jones The Chipper Djimon Hounsou The Snack of the Gods Fruit Protein Shake 1833 Jacob Ebert and George Dulty patented the Soda Fountain Soda Fountain Sodas Soda Fountain Phosphate 1914 Justin Wilson, Cajun Chef was born Death Valley Snack Mix Red, White, and Blue Sangria Salted Beer Caramels Amber Beef Stew St. Mark Frittelle Alla Veneziane 1856 Charles Lullwedge Dodgson met a girl named Alice Liddell A Toast to Alice 1932 Meadowlark Lemon, a basketball star was born Meadowlark Lemon Cocktail Red, White, and Blue Sangria Salted Beer Caramels Amber Beef Stew St. Mark Frittelle Alla Veneziane 1856 Charles Lullwedge Dodgson met a girl named Alice Liddell A Toast to Alice 1932 Meadowlark Lemon, a basketball star was born Meadowlark Lemon Cocktail

Emma Watson Birthday Emma Spritz St. Drogo Druon Espresso Martini National Orchid Day Black Orchid 1956 On the ‘I Love Lucy’ Show Topsy Turvy Sangria 2020 Busch Beer offers a year of free beer Busch Lite Biscuits Nun Juana Inés de la Cruz Red Wine Sangria 1790 Benjamin Franklin Died Ben Franklin Cocktail 1979 The Swedish Brand of Absolut Vodka hit store shelves Espresso Martini 2008 The musical ‘A Catered Affair’ opened in NYC Pineapple Sour Hedge your Bets 2015 The SpaceX supply ship brought groceries to the ISS Deep Space The Cosmonaut Space Cowboy Space Oddity Lost in Space Martini Space Gin Smash Galaxy Moscow Mule 2020 Land O’ Lakes Butter went woke Beer Cheese Mac & Cheese Clarence Darron Clarence’s Mulled Wine America Ferrera Ice Cream Hogarth Orange Lion Event Horizon D’Artagnan Mulled Wine 1921 Ontario Canada voted for Alcohol Prohibition Canadian Cocktail National Clean out your Medicine Cabinet Day CBD Oil National Amaretto Day Amaretto Cheesecake 1995 The Supreme Court of the United States ruled alcohol content needs to be on beer labels Beer Chili 1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens Died Mark Twain Cocktail 1959 Alfred Dean caught a record Great White Shark Great White Shark 1962 Top of the Space Needle Restaurant opened Space Needle Cocktail Space Needle Crispy Baked Apple Chips

Patricia Arquette was born Cucci Cocktail Mad Melon Cocktail Lawhill Cocktail Penis Colarous Cocktail Stork Club Cocktail Burton Allen Williams was born Police and Thieves Cocktail Officer Down Cocktail 1513 Ponce De Leon Landed Ponce De Leon Cocktail Eid-al-Fitr Honey Orange Blossom Lemonade National Gin and Tonic Day Gin and Tonic Cocktail The Cocktail Party Choco-Mint Mudslide 1872 Arbor Day Pear Martini Very Cherry Smash Orange Blossom Washington Apples Frozen Bananas Drambuie Fresco Peach Cosmopolitan 1944 Synthetic Quinine Homemade Tonic Water 1926 Luther Burbank Died Gin Shasta 2008 The Last Livestock Auction was Held Stockpony St. Teresa of Los Andes Chilean Borgona aka Strawberry Wine 1924 Prohibition Ends in Alberta Canada Prickly Berry Sour 1996 James and the Giant Peach opened in Theaters Jameson and the Giant Peach 1748 Joseph Bramah was born Beer Brownies 1976 The $2 bill is reintroduced $2 Bill Cocktail Adrien Brody Cranberry Orange Cosmopolitan 1989 “She Drives Me Crazy” Hits #1 Jamaican Me Crazy

Alcohol Awareness Month Cosmopolitan Cocktail National Cannabis Awareness Cannabis Tea with Rosemary National Tom Foolery’s Day Old Fashioned Whiskey Sour Scofflaw Manhattan Mint Julep Brooklyn Sazerac Diamondback Jack Rose Little John Princess Mary’s Pride Cocktail Chagrin Mule Honeymoon 1918 in Canada, Alberta declared total prohibition Canadian Old Fashioned 1976 Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville was #1 Last Mango in Paris Cazuela Cocktail – Voladora 1859 Massachusetts first Inspector of Milk Pumpkin Pie in a Glass 1930 India Gandhi’s Negroni Cocktail 1932 C. Glen King Isolated Vitamin C from Lemon California Strawberry Smoothie Olympic Rings: Lifesaver Champagne Cocktail White Sunday White Sunday Cocktail Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Cocktail Russell Crowe Goldfinch Cocktail World Health Day Oral Hydration Solution Orange Juice Base Gatorade Base Grape Juice Base Apple Juice Base Randy’s Rehydration Drink WHO ORS Drink National Beer Day Gluhbier (Hot Beer) 1914 Arbuckle Brothers registered the YUBAN trademark for coffee (first used in 1913) YUBAN Instant Coffee

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