JANUARY 16
1920:Americans enjoy their last legal drop of alcohol as the 18th Amendment
to the Constitution goes into effect, prohibiting the manufacture, sale
and transportation of liquor. Prohibition would be repealed by the ratification of the 21st Amendment in December 1933.
1938: Bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman brings a jazz orchestra to Carnegie Hall in New York for the first time, marking the acceptance of jazz into highbrow American culture. The sold-out performance, with the best seats in the house going for $2.75, is often regarded as the most important jazz concert of all time.
2003: Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut, is among the seven crew members onboard the space shuttle Columbia when it is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle would disintegrate during reentry on Feb. 1, killing the entire crew.
1938: Bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman brings a jazz orchestra to Carnegie Hall in New York for the first time, marking the acceptance of jazz into highbrow American culture. The sold-out performance, with the best seats in the house going for $2.75, is often regarded as the most important jazz concert of all time.
2003: Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut, is among the seven crew members onboard the space shuttle Columbia when it is launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle would disintegrate during reentry on Feb. 1, killing the entire crew.
No comments:
Post a Comment