Day Tripping: April 7
Hops, Health, and Heaters
Pass That Beer
Eight months before the 21st Amendment in the United States is ratified, beer sales with an alcohol by volume limit of 3.2% are allowed in 1933. When elected as President in the year before, FDR made the repeal of prohibition a top priority to curtail the increase in organized crime resulting from illegal booze sales.
The Cullen-Harrison Act was signed in mid-march ended a thirteen-year ban on legal consumption, and the introduction of the low content suds on this day would create National Beer Day in America. At 12:01 a.m., two cases of beer from the Abner-Drury Brewery were delivered under armed guard to the White House.
Well, at 3.2%, it was near beer, anyway.
Get Your Shot
The United Nations established the World Health Organization [WHO] in 1948, and it has been commemorated each year as World Health Day. The organization’s principal mandates are to promote the health and wellbeing of all peoples, monitor public health risks and respond to emergencies, as well as advocate for universal healthcare.
During its tenure, the WHO has spearheaded the eradication of smallpox and almost completely, polio, and has been a leader in the formation of research to combat AIDS, Malaria and COVID-19.
