Before we get into this Drink of the Day, it’s important to mention the most important part of this day: the celebration of all moms out there! Happy Mother’s Day!!

Let’s forget about coinciding the drink with the history of the day and instead find a drink I think your mom may enjoy. I have a drink that’s creamy and minty with a hint of coffee flavor that should do the trick. At least it’ll keep her motivated to do all the things that make her Read More >>

Those who were tended to by her felt she was sent from the heavens. What she did to better the conditions for those she nursed back to health during the war could be considered sainthood. Her hygiene standards and other practices changed the way nurses performed their duties and gave them more responsibilities. On this day, in 1820, we were blessed to have Florence Nightingale come into the world.

An English nurse called the “Lady with the Lamp” due to her tending to her Read More >>

After previously beating its predecessor the year before, current World Chess Champion Garry Kasparav would be invited back to play another six game match against IBM’s new “Deep Blue” supercomputer in 1997. This time, the computer won two matches, Kasparov one, and there would be three ties. Kasparov, feeling that IBM had cheated, demanded a rematch. However, the computer was dismantled shortly after the match.

To remember the day the computer outwitted human Read More >>

J. Edgar Hoover became the first director for the newly formed Bureau of Investigation, what we know today as the FBI, and would remain in that role until his death in 1972. He would grow it into a very well run crime investigation agency. However, it is now known that Mr. Hoover would work above the law in getting things done. For that very reason, term limits have been put in place limiting their tenure to ten years.

This agency would come around at the right time. In the 1930s Read More >>

Thomas Blood, an Irish Colonel who was known more for his antics than his bravery, attempted to steal the Crown Jewels on this day in 1671.

Just to give you an idea of who this person was, he started off as a Royalist during the First English Civil War then decided to switch sides and became a lieutenant for Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads. Also, he kidnapped the First Duke of Ormonde, James Butler, for ransom and also tried to assassinate him years later. These both ended in Read More >>

Mt. Pelee, an active volcano on the island of Martinique, part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles chain in the West Indies, erupted and caused a fast flowing lava stream that completely destroyed and killed everyone, but two (possibly three) of the inhabitants of St. Pierre, the largest city on the island at the time. The population of the city at the time was 30,000. Due to getting the okay not to evacuate the city by a local “volcano commitee”, everyone in the town Read More >>

At the beginning of the 20th Century, if you had the biggest fleet and the fastest ships, you owned the waterways. This would explain the reasoning for Germany to begin it’s submarine attack on the bigger fleets during WWI. But, what the Germans on did on this day in 1915 was inhumane and would bring the United States into the war. The British Ocean Liner, Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine after being spotted and even identified by a German U-Boat eleven miles off the coast of Read More >>

The Channel Tunnel, also referred to as the Chunnel, opened on May 6th, 1994. It’s an underground rail service connecting Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdome with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais, France. The American Society of Civil Engineers has called it one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The tunnel carries passengers on a high speed railway service underwater for 31.4 miles. Construction began on this tunnel in 1988 and in it’s peak had 15,000 people Read More >>

Due to having two major events happening on the same day this year, I feel it is only right to give props to both. So, you’ll be getting yet another two drink recipe day today, the second one within a week!

To celebrate Mexican pride, and to remember the defeat of the French Army at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico, we celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Don’t confuse this with the actual National Patriotic holiday in Mexico, which is celebrated on September 16th. The United States Read More >>

In what was meant to bring attention to society that urban growth and technology was destroying our wilderness, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski began a bombing campaign that would span twenty years. In total, three people would be killed and over twenty wounded. He went without being known until The Washington Post published his manifesto. His brother and sister-in-law recognized the beliefs to match that of Ted, so they called him in. The terrorist attacks, which began in 1978, Read More >>