In an amazing about-face, the people of the United States and the U.S. Congress ratified the 21st Amendment on this day in 1933, ending the thirteen years of a national disaster known as Prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment, passed in 1918 by an overwhelming majority of Congress and ratified in just thirteen months, had gone into effect on Jan. 17, 192…
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