1942 Actress Carole Lombard, and twenty other people, die in a plane crash near Las Vegas. The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution takes effect, banning the sale of beer and distilled spirits. 1919 Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming ratify the Prohibition Amendment, adding it to the Constitution. The US Civil Service Commission is established. Clear , dies.
Brazil is decreed a kingdom, independent from Portugal.
Ivan the Terrible is crowned Czar of Russia.