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Thursday, June 14, 2018
It's National Bourbon Day

KENTUCKY (KGO) -- This story proves there's an official "day" for everything, and today is about a special drink. June 14 marks National Bourbon Day!

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Some are celebrating with a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned. In 1964, a Congressional Resolution designated Bourbon as America's native spirit. Since then, there is nowhere else in the world that can make a whiskey and call it Bourbon.

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