We think of Prohibition as America’s (not-so) dry spell that started in 1920, but in reality, it took some time to implement. The proposed Eighteenth Amendment to ban the sale of alcohol didn’t become ratified until Nebraska became the 36th state to approve it. And that happened exactly 100 years ago today, on January 16, 1919. By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on January 17, 1920. The American Issue newspaper was certainly excited by the news—hardly surprising considering it was the publishing arm of the National Anti-Saloon League, which was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition.