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| Thursday 13 May 2021: World Cocktail Day |
| World Cocktail Day is celebrated on May 13th as it marks the publication date of the first definition of a cocktail on 13 May 1806 in The New York tabloid The Balance and Columbian Repository. It was the response by the editor to a letter from a reader, who was confused by the new term cocktail used a week earlier. The editor defined a cocktail as "a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters". |