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The Prohibition starts.
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Cleveland had an estimated 3,000 illegal speakeasies, compared to the 1,200 legal bars it had in 1919.
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Editorial cartoon that appeared in the Putnam County Courier, which regards a canidate who was running for office.
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Saloon owner "Dapper Dan" Hogan, a go-between for St. Paul police and gangsters, is killed by a car bomb outside his W. 7th St. home.
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Al Capone was known for speakeasies and being a gangster. On this day, he tried to assasinate another major criminal, Bugs Moran. Fake police officers killed several people, but Moran was not one of them.
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The stock market crash was a big part of the Great Depression. This meant people needed work.
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Bootlegging kingpin Leon Gleckman moves into the Hotel St. Paul and establishes it as his headquarters.
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Illegal brewery discovered after fire. Three hundred gallons of beer found in barrels. Owners never found.
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Sixty dry federal agents raided fifteen restaurants, inns, stores, and private homes located throughout Putnam Count. Twenty men were arrested.
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President Herbert Hoover stated that prohibition needed to end in his acceptance speech.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act which legalized the manufacture and sale of certain types of alcohol.
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The prohibition ends. The 21st Amendment releals the 18th Amendment, making alcohol legal.
