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Today April 7th
1933: Beer is sold once again in US
"Brewery horses galloped once again in 19 of the 48 states and the District of Columbia early today as 3.2 per cent beer was placed on sale at 12:01 a.m.," reported The Charleston Gazette today in 1933.
Most of the larger breweries sent their first case of legal beer to President Roosevelt, while cities like St. Louis, Chicago and Los Angeles held midnight celebrations to mark the return of the legal brew.
In Ohio, The Circleville Herald reported today that the one place busier than the restaurants and hotels selling beer was the state beer commission that issues the permits to sell alcohol.
1970: Stalin's daughter marries architect in Phoenix
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, married William Wesley Peters, chief architect of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, today during a simple Quaker ceremony in Phoenix. “The couple will reside at Taliesin West in the winter months and at the original Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis., the rest of the year,” reported the Sheboygan Journal on April 8, 1970
1945: Infantrymen find Hitler's treasure
General George S. Patton's soldiers found Germany's hidden stash of gold, currency and works of art valued in the billions of dollars in a salt mine 140 miles southwest of Berlin today. According to the Nazi officials taken in the mine, it took five weeks for Hitler's collapsing Reich to move all the treasure from Berlin.
1906: Liquid fire spews from Mount Vesuvius
Effluvia from Mount Vesuvius razed homesteads today as gray ash and liquid fire erupted from the volcano. "The streams of lava were resistless. They snapped like pipestems the trunks of chestnut trees hundreds of years old and blighted with their torrid breath the blooms on the peach trees before the trees themselves had been reached. They razed the homes of the peasants, filled up the wells, and then continued their course down the mountainside," informed The New York Times on April 8, 1906. NOTE: The eruption killed over 100 people.
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