The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

The first recorded use of the word cocktail is found in The Morning Post and Gazetteer in London, England on March 20, 1798:

The first recorded use of the word cocktail in the United States is said to be in The Farmer's Cabinet on April 28, 1803:

The first publication of a bartenders ' guide which included cocktail recipes was in 1862 — How to Mix Drinks ; or, The Bon Vivant's Companion, by " Professor " Jerry Thomas.

The site of this first cocktail party still stands.

The only certainty is that this cocktail was first sipped in Cuba.

The first documented definition of the word " cocktail " was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York.

The first alleged use of the specific name " Old Fashioned " was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen ’ s club in Louisville, Kentucky.

The traditional cocktail known as a Black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a White Russian with the addition of cream.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the first mention of the word " White Russian " in the sense of a cocktail as appearing in California's Oakland Tribune on 21 November 1965.

Set in the 19th century, it explores the events which follow the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates: the children are revealed as considerably more amoral than the pirates ( it was in this novel that Hughes first described the cocktail Hangman's Blood ).

The Mai Tai cocktail was first concocted in Oakland in 1944, and it became very popular at Trader Vic's restaurant.

* The popular story of the birth of the Manhattan cocktail is that it was first served at the Manhattan Club in New York City in 1874 in honor of Tilden.

He said that provided one could exist on peanuts and champagne, one could quite easily live by going to every cocktail party, premiere and first night to which one was invited.

Today, a water tower painted to resemble the first Libby's fruit cocktail can label identifies the former site of the factory.

Her first marriage broke up and she moved with her two children, Damon and Latanne, to Dallas, Texas, where she modeled for Neiman Marcus and worked as a cocktail hostess, intending to move on to New York City from there.

At first, Barnard does not hide his disdain for Vivian, but he eventually befriends her, helps her buy a cocktail dress, and gives her lessons in table manners.

This battle also marked the first use of the molotov cocktail against tanks.

In 2007 Esquire launched the Napkin Fiction Project, in which 250 cocktail napkins were mailed to writers all over the country by the incoming fiction editor, in a playful attempt to revive short fiction — " some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first.

In the same family as the various versions of champagne cocktail is the celebrated French 75, an elixir which, if it did not actually have its origin in the first of the German wars, at least came to the general attention of American drinkers at that time and was immediately enshrined in the pharmacopoeia of alcohol artistry in the United States upon the conclusion of hostilities in 1919.

At some point before his death in 1889, Handy recorded the recipe for the cocktail, and the drink made its first printed appearance in William T. " Cocktail Bill " Boothby's 1908 The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them.

However, the word cocktail predates this by decades, first appearing in print in 1803, and first defined in print in 1806 as " a mixture of spirits of any kind, water, sugar and bitters, vulgarly called a bittered sling.

In the first book, the guide relates smuggling Antarean parakeet glands, a notably unpleasant analogue of an olive in a typical cocktail.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

He remembered the first time he saw her, standing across the room at a party.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

Constantius wavered in his support between the first and the second party, while harshly persecuting the third.

* 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Their party was defeated ( 2 May 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos, a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government.

Additionally, a wide range of first and third party hardware extensions such as external disk drives, printers, and memory extensions, was available.

* 1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.

After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.

To cover their real purpose, the first government visitors to Bletchley Park described themselves as " Captain Ridley's shooting party ".