1983 Event Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam 1974 Event Never-to-be-repeated 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs 1974 Event 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 Birthday Tom Beer, NFL running back, Detroit Lions 1958 Event Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens 1944 Birthday Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education 1942 Event Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall 1939 Event Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe 1935 Birthday Gillian Beer, professor/president, Clare Hall-Cambridge 1935 Event 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co 1934 Birthday Leopold M de Beer, Dutch MP, VVD 1933 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal 1932 Event "We Want Beer!" parade in New York 1928 Birthday Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP, DP 1925 Event Canadians allow to sell beer 1923 Event Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees 1923 Event Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen (Munich) 1923 Birthday Alfred Heineken, beer brewer, Heineken 1921 Event President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes 1896 Death Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 1872 Birthday George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies 1869 Event Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer, Philadelphia 1866 Event Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer 1837 Birthday Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer 1797 Birthday Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map 1744 Birthday Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer, 5th clarinet flap 1714 Event People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands 1568 Event Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer 1487 Event Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer
