On this day:
1886 Coca-Cola is invented by Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John Styth Pemberton
1933 MK Gandhi begins a three week fast in protest against British oppression in India
1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climb Mount Everest without oxygen supply
Born on this day:
1884 Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
Gone on this day:
1903 Paul Gauguin, French painter
