![]() ![]() The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. ![]() In 1933, by the time he was 19 years old, on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. ![]() In 1914, in the year that John W Hastings was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during John's lifetime. ![]()
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