Brooklyn Today: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Good morning. Today is the 24th day of the year. On this day in 1935, the first canned beer went on sale in the U.S. when the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, N.J., and the American Can Company produced 2,000 cans. It was an immediate success. By the end of the 1930s, most major breweries had begun using cans. As for the Gottfried Krueger brewery, it was eventually bought by Ballentine.
Well-known people who were born today include comedian Yakov Smirnoff, Brooklyn-born singer Neil Diamond (“Cherry Cherry,” “Cracklin’ Rosie,” “Sweet Caroline”), singer-songwriter Aaron Neville, Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton and U.S Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shawn Donovan.
This evening at the powerHouse Arena, 37 Main St., DUMBO, author Keshni Kashyrap will discuss Tina’s Mouth, her comic book about the trials and tribulations of a teenager who belongs to an upper-middle-class Hindu-American family in California. Kashyrap is a filmmaker and a contributor to the Daily Beast. …