National Pharmacist Day Timeline

​May 8, 1963

America's largest drug store made its debut

​CVS, the largest pharmacy in the U.S., employing 24,000 pharmacists, opened.

​​Sept. 28, 1928

The breakthrough antibiotic

​Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

754 AD

Ancient medicine

The first pharmacies were established, in Baghdad, during the Islamic Golden Age.