Thirty years ago, a sobering dry spell in Icelandsa国际传媒檚 history came to an end.
On Friday, the country celebrates the anniversary of the lifting of a decades-long ban on beer with sa国际传媒� what else? sa国际传媒� a nationwide Beer Day.
The drink was outlawed in Iceland for 74 years, while all other booze was completely legal. The alcoholic anomaly finally ended on March 1, 1989.
The beer ban was a holdover from the countrysa国际传媒檚 prohibition era, which started in 1915 when the population voted in a referendum to outlaw all alcoholic drinks.
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Prohibition was repealed in another national referendum in 1933. But the majority vote was tight and to appease a powerful temperance movement, Icelandsa国际传媒檚 parliament decided beer would remain illegal.
Egill Bjarnason, The Associated Press
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