January 16th

Today's Highlight in History:
On January 16th, 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution took effect. (It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.)

On this date:
In 1547, Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.

In 1883, the US Civil Service Commission was established.

In 1919, Nebraska, Wyoming and Missouri became the 36th, 37th and 38th states to ratify Prohibition, which went into effect a year later.

In 1942, actress Carole Lombard, her mother and about twenty other people were killed when their plane crashed near Las Vegas, Nevada, while returning from a war-bond promotion tour.

In 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied Invasion Force in London.