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January 16 – The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States. January 20 – Thomas Kilby is sworn in as the 36th governor of Alabama replacing Charles Henderson. [1] January 22 – The United States recognizes the independence of Poland. [2]
The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no president-elect. The Twentieth ...
1920 – 19th Amendment, grants women the right to vote; 1920 – The Great Steel Strike ends; 1920 – Sacco and Vanzetti arrested; 1920 – First radio broadcasts, by KDKA in Pittsburgh and WWJ in Detroit; 1920 – Volstead Act; 1920 – Esch–Cummins Act; 1920 – Economy collapses. The Depression of 1920–21 begins. 1920 – National ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
April 2 – Jack Webb, television actor, director and producer (died 1982) April 5 – Arthur Hailey, writer (died 2004) April 6 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2021) April 12 – Buck Young, actor (died 2000) April 13 – Jack Lambert, actor (died 2002) April 19
The First and 27th amendments had very different paths. How long does it take to ratify a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution? The First and 27th amendments had very different paths.
[20] 1868. Citizenship is guaranteed to all male persons born or naturalized in the United States by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights. November 3: The right of African American men to vote in Iowa is approved through a voter referendum. [21] 1869
[7] [11] The Nineteenth Amendment would later establish women's suffrage irrespective of marital status or property in 1920. Representative Lucas M. Miller proposed a constitutional amendment to change the country's name to "the United States of the Earth." [12]