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Beer

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 Neth 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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