May 8, 1886 was the date on which Dr. John Pemberton (1831-1888) first sold Coca-Cola to a local Atlanta drug store, thus marking its debut on the world stage as a publicly available soft drink. Pemberton, a morphine-addicted Confederate Civil War veteran, experimented with different concoctions in an effort to come up with a formula […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36AM on May 8, 2024