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On December 5, 1933
Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which had outlawed ethenol in the United States).,
California Gold Rush: In a message before the Congress of the United States, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.,