BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 115                 Wednesday, 24 April 2024         Antwerpen		
Die Kleinen und die Bösen
Pharmacist
John Stith Pemberton
known for inventing Coca Cola


  • 8 July 1831 (+) is born in Knoxville, United States.

  • 8 May 1866 (x) sells his first bottles of Coca-Cola as a 'delicious, refreshing, exhilarating, invigorating' medicine beverage and touted it as a 'valuable brain tonic' that would cure headaches, relieve exhaustion and calm nerves, for 5¢ a glass at soda fountains in Columbus, United States.

  • 16 August 1888 (-) dies of stomach cancer in Atlanta, United States.


  • More info on Wikipedia