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*[[1919]] &ndash; The 18th Amendment, proposed by Congress on [[December 18]], [[1917]], and was ratified by the requisite number of states. Since [[1907]], alcohol had been banned in Charlottesville after a local vote to go "dry." The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment on [[December 5]], [[1933]], ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol. It is the only amendment to be repealed.  
*[[1902]] &ndash; '''[[Lizzie Petit Cutler]]''', an influential author of Southern United States literature in the nineteenth century, died.
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Tamyra Turner]] died at age 73. She was a [[Charlottesville School Board]] member (1993 to 1996) who started the city’s [[Juneteenth celebration]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; Twenty-eight Black women employed at the '''[[University of Virginia Hospital]]''' staged a walkout after the hospital's superintendent refused to accept their petition for higher wages.
*[[2019]] &ndash; '''[[Tamyra Turner]]''' died.

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