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31st January 1865: Thirteenth Amendment passed by the US Congress to formally abolish slavery

31st January 2021
Tagged as: Amendment, America, American Civil War, Emancipation, Lincoln, Racism, Slavery, Thirteenth Amendment, United States, USA

It was sent to the states for ratification the next day, a process that was concluded on 6 December after the necessary three-quarters of states approved it.

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16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment

16th January 2021
Tagged as: Alcohol, Amendment, America, Nebraska, Prohibition, United States, USA

Nationwide prohibition began on 17 January the following year, and existed until its repeal by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.

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31st January 1865: Thirteenth Amendment passed by the US Congress to formally abolish slavery

16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment

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25th December 1914: The Christmas Truce takes place at sections along the Western Front

3rd December 1967: The first human-to-human heart transplant is performed

5th November 1940: President Roosevelt elected for an unprecedented third term

15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

18th May 1896: The Supreme Court delivers its verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson that approves the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine

17th May 1792: The Buttonwood Agreement signed by 24 stockbrokers, establishing the New York Stock Exchange

16th May 1771: The Battle of Alamance ends the Regulator Movement in Provincial North Carolina

15th May 1940: The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in San Bernadino, California

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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