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2012 Event - In an effort to curb binge drinking and other alcohol related problems, the United Kingdom's Home Office begins a 10-week consultation on whether to introduce a minimum price on the sale of alcohol of 45p a unit

2012 Event - In Haiti, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced plans to pay for a new education fund with a new 'sin' tax on alcohol, cigarettes and gambling

1994 Event - Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)

1990 Event - Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation

1990 Event - New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center

1972 Event - Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi

1936 Event - 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

1933 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal

1921 Event - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus

1851 Event - 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine

1838 Event - Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol









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