After Arnold signaled the warden to begin the lethal injection, he began singing 'Amazing Grace' and kept singing as the chemicals coursed into his veins. (16 January 2002)
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Tuesday 8th of May 1866 (x) — 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. Coca Cola was first formulated by Pemberton at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company as Pemberton's French Wine Coca.