Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-First Amendment, enacting the end of Prohibition into law. The amendment, the first to be passed by 75% of state ratifying conventions, repealed the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the manufacturing, transporting, and selling of alcohol in the United States.
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