28 October 2016

Moonshine

28 October 1919 


On this date in 1919...

Congress passed the Volstead Act prohibiting the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors."  Moonshining instantly became a big business in the Southern hills. 

Other Years:


  • 1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin. 
  • 1863 - Confederate General James Longstreet's division engaged federal troops at Wauhatchie, Tennessee, in rare night attack.  A total of 865 were killed or wounded. 
  • 1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
  • 1962 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the U.S. that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
  • 1965 - The  630 foot high Gateway Arch was completed in St Louis, Missouri.
  • 1981- Edward M McIntrye was elected as the first black mayor of Augusta, Georgia.


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