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Events on Tuesday 28 October 1919 1
1919Volstead Act passed over presidential vetoCongress sets rules for enforcing ProhibitionCongress overrode President Wilson's veto to pass the National Prohibition Act, known as the Volstead Act, which defined enforcement mechanisms for the Eighteenth Amendment. It set the legal framework that governed Prohibition until its repeal in 1933.