Cheers to Repeal Day!

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At 5:31 p.m. Eastern, exactly 79 years will have elapsed since the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, officially ending 13 years of Prohibition and re-legalizing the production, purchase and consumption of alcohol in the United States.

“What America needs now is a drink,” quipped President Franklin D. Roosevelt when Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah ratified the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933.

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79 years ago today the 21st Amendment was ratified! Be sure to raise a glass to this day in history this evening...

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