Today is Monday July 19, 2010
National Daquiri Day
Daiquiris are delectable cocktails that have been around since the 1800's. The daiquiri was invented by a group of American mining engineers in Venus Bar in Santiago.
According to the legend, Jennings Cox ran out of gin while he was entertaining his American guests and so he began mixing together other ingredients, creating the first daiquiri. This cocktail remained fairly local until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson tried Cox's drink. He loved it so much that he introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington D.C., and its popularity soon flourished into the rest of the country.
The original daiquiri recipe contained white rum, sugar, lime juice, and gomme syrup. But today, daiquiris can be found in a variety of fruit flavors and can be enjoyed on the rocks or frozen. To celebrate today, enjoy your favorite type of daiquiri to cool you off from this summer heat!
This week is National Ventriloquism Week
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On this day in History:
1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
1939 - Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.
1980 - Billy Joel earned his first gold record with "It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me."
1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
Quote of the Day:
"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be." --La Rouchefoucauld
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