 21st Amendment, which nullified the 19th Amendment of 1919 prohibiting the manufacture sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition had not stopped alcohol consumption, but merely driven it underground into the criminal world. America celebrated so much that 1.5 million barrels of beer were drunk the first night. Towns ran dry, and were drunk dry again the next night too. Prohibition had simply created enormous opportunities for organised crime.
5/1/1933, Calvin Coolidge, American Republican statesman and 30th President (1923-1929), died of a heart attack in Northampton, Massachusetts.
8/11/1932. Franklin D Roosevelt, Democrat, promising a New Deal to restore employment, financial security, and welfare, is swept into the White House on a landslide result, beating the sitting Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover. He became the 32nd President of the USA. Roosevelt got 22,822,000 votes against 15,762,000 for Hoover.
8/3/1930. William Howard Taft, American Republican and 27th President from 1909 to 1913, died in Washington.
4/3/1929. Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as the President of the USA.
6/11/1928. Herbert Hoover, Republican, was elected 31st President of the USA.
5/1/1928. Walter Mondale, US Vice-President, was born in Ceylon, Minnesota.
18/8/1927, Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, was born in Plains, Georgia, as Rosalynn Smith.
1/10/1924. US Democrat and 39th President James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, peanut farmer, was born in Plains, Georgia.
12/6/1924, George Bush, Republican and US President, was born in Milton, Massachusetts.
3/2/1924, Woodrow Wilson, Democrat and 28th President of America from 1913 to 1921, also Nobel Prize winner, died and was buried in Washington Cathedral.
3/8/1923, John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) became 30th (Republican) President of the USA, going on to win the election of 1924. He declined to stand for election in 1928 but retired, just before the Wall Street crash.
2/8/1923, Warren Harding, American Republican and 29th President from 1921, died in San Francisco on return from a trip to Alaska. The remainder of his term was completed by Calvin Coolidge.
6/7/1921, Nancy Reagan, wife of President Reagan, was born as Nancy Davis.
4/3/1921, Warren Harding was inaugurated as 29th President of the USA.
6/1/1919. US President Theodore Roosevelt died at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York State. He was the 24th President, from 1901 to 1909, and won the Nobel Prize in 1906. Starting his career as Chief of New York Police, he became President in 1901 when William McKinley was assassinated; he was elected in 1904 for a further term.
29/5/1917. US Democrat and 35th President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children. He was America’s first Roman Catholic President, and the youngest to date.
7/11/1916. Woodrow Wilson was re-elected US President.
14/7/1913. US Republican and 38th President, Gerald Ford, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as Leslie king Junior.
4/3/1913. Woodrow Wilson became President of the USA.
5/11/1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected US President, the first Democrat President for 20 years. The Republican vote was split between Roosevelt and Taft, allowing Wilson to win with only 42% of the vote.
16/3/1912, Thelma Nixon, wife of America’s 37th President, was born in Ely, Nevada, as Thelma Ryan.
6/2/1911. Ronald Reagan, American Republican and 40th President, was born in Tampico, Illinois.
4/3/1909, William Taft was inaugurated as US President.
3/11/1908. William Howard Taft, Republican candidate, was elected 27th President of the USA.
27/8/1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, American Democrat and 36th President, was born in Johnson City, Texas.
24/6/1908, Grover Cleveland, American Democrat, 22nd and 24th president, between 1865 and 1897, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
8/11/1904. US President Theodore Roosevelt won a second term in the elections.
23/6/1904, US President Roosevelt was nominated by his party for a further term.
14/9/1901. US President William McKinley died in Buffalo, eight days after being shot by an 