On this day, January 22nd in 1929 .. Congress passed legislation making “Prohibition” the law of the land, declaring the United States a “dry country”! On December 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the 21st Amendment was ratified, ending Prohibition.
1930 .. Groundbreaking for the Empire State Building. Construction on the tallest building in the world was completed in a record 410 days!
1938: “Our Town”, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize play about small town life in Grover’s Corner NH premiered on stage.
1968: The Apollo Lunar Module was launched to the moon!
Any guesses on how January 22, 2020 will be remembered in history?