In 1935, in partnership with the American Can Company, the
Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of
Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful
Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent
of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger
to give the green light to further production.

David Emge, who played Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews the helicopter
pilot turned zombie in George A. Romero‘s Dawn of the Dead, has 
has died.

Emge’s family shared the news of his death with the Evansville
Courier & Press, a newspaper in his Indiana hometown. He died
Saturday at the West River Health Campus. A cause of death was
not disclosed. He was 77. 

1978

ROSS SIMPSON

James Wilson Marshall
(October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885)

The caption with this photo at the Library of Congress
claims that this was Marshall in front of the mill in 1850.

On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill on
the American River in Northern California. After James W.
Marshall, who’d been overseeing the sawmill’s construction,
found the gold nuggets he and his boss, John Sutter,
attempted to keep

the discovery a secret. However, word soon spread and by
1849 thousands of prospectors, who became known as 49ers,
were flocking to Coloma, California, site of Sutter’s Mill, and
the surrounding region, hoping to strike it rich.

   
James Marshall’s cabin.

   

    
    
    
   
John Augustus Sutter
(February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880)

The spot where Marshall first discovered the gold that
started the California Gold Rush.