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December 15 News Items

On this day, in 1933, prohibition was repealed with the adoption of the 21st Amendment. Drink up!

Don Bain    December 16, 2012 - 12:17AM

The world's oldest society is a late bloomer in terms of capitalism and cars...

By the way Aaron, I followed up on a Profiles in America piece last week that stated the end of Prohibition was on Dec. 4, 1933. You mean the Census Bureau was lying to me?

Raise a toast to the end of Prohibition but not behind the wheel!

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