1919
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This article is a date listing important events for the year 1919.
Events
- Beginning of The City Beautiful Movement.
- 11 January – Virginia was the second state to ratify the 18th Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of "intoxicating liquors" in the United States.
- January 16 – The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” becomes the law of the land-national prohibition began.
- May 21 – During the first session of the 66th Congress (1919–1921), members of the U. S. House passed (for the second time) the women’s suffrage amendment.
- June 4 – The U.S. Congress passes the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by the states a year later. The amendment guarantees women the right to vote. It took over 60 years for the remaining 12 states to ratify the 19th Amendment. Virginia delayed its ratification until 1952. (Mississippi was the last to do so, on March 22, 1984).
- October 28 – Congress passed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. The act established the legal definition of intoxicating liquors as well as penalties for producing them.
- November 1 – The Virginia Prohibition Commission, created in 1916 by an act of the General Assembly to enforce the Virginia Prohibition Act, went into effect. This law did not restrict individuals’ ability to manufacture alcoholic beverages, or "ardent spirits", for their own use, but did restrict the "sale and transport of said goods".
Births
Deaths
- November 12 - Thomas S. Martin at his home Faulkner House. An American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Scottsville, Martin founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades (later becoming known as the Byrd Organization). Martine held office from March 4, 1895 until his death.
Images dated 1919
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