Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1866

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Speculation has long surrounded the circumstances of Gorky's death. He was probably murdered by kampher injections and digitaline-strychnine-poisoning by members of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
(18 June 1936)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 8th of May 1866 158 years ago He Would Cure Headaches, Relieve Exhaustion and Calm Nerves
35-year-old pharmacist John Pemberton 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, Georgia, United States. Coca Cola was first formulated by Pemberton at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company as Pemberton's French Wine Coca.