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1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam

1974 Never-to-be-repeated 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs

1974 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th

1969 Tom Beer, NFL running back, Detroit Lions

1958 Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens

1944 Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education

1942 Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall

1939 Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe

1935 Gillian Beer, professor/president, Clare Hall-Cambridge

1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co

1934 Leopold M de Beer, Dutch MP, VVD

1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal

1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York

1928 Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP, DP

1925 Canadians allow to sell beer

1923 Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees

1923 Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen (Munich)

1923 Alfred Heineken, beer brewer, Heineken

1921 President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes

1896 Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58

1872 George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies

1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer, Philadelphia

1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer

1837 Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer

1797 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map

1744 Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer, 5th clarinet flap

1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands

1568 Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer

1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer


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