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With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century.
Sitar icon Ravi Shankar dead at 92

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todaysdocument: Bipartisan support for the end of Prohibition! ourpresidents: Prohibition Ends - “At Last!” When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, a constitutional amendment to repeal Prohibition was already making its way through the state legislatures.  FDR acted immediately to ease Prohibition with the Beer-Wine Revenue Act.  Prohibition was officially repealed on December 5, 1933. This 1933 goblet commemorates the end of Prohibition with a series of seven vignettes, including a “G.O.P.” elephant and a “D.E.M.” donkey celebrating over a barrel of beer.  The etched caption reads, “At Last!” More - FDR’s Presidential Proclamation announcing the repeal of Prohibition

todaysdocument:

Bipartisan support for the end of Prohibition!

ourpresidents:

Prohibition Ends - “At Last!”

When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, a constitutional amendment to repeal Prohibition was already making its way through the state legislatures. 

FDR acted immediately to ease Prohibition with the Beer-Wine Revenue Act.  Prohibition was officially repealed on December 5, 1933.

This 1933 goblet commemorates the end of Prohibition with a series of seven vignettes, including a “G.O.P.” elephant and a “D.E.M.” donkey celebrating over a barrel of beer.  The etched caption reads, “At Last!”

More - FDR’s Presidential Proclamation announcing the repeal of Prohibition