On this day: January 8
POSTED: 03:18 PM PST Jan 07, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 07, 2013
George Washington delivers the first State of the Union, Elvis is born, 14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins his first U.S. Chess Championships, and a gunman shoots Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Arizona, all on this day.
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1918: Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment, which, upon full ratification in 1920, would make the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States. Here, federal agents can be seen dumping out barrels of alcohol in 1921 after Prohibition was passed.
