<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska" id="mw1A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nebraska">Nebraska</a> becomes the 36th state to approve the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" id="mw1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prohibition in the United States">Prohibition</a> is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.<sup about="#mwt116" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}' id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_16#cite_note-20" id="mw1w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw2A">[20]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"><cite about="#mwt113" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCD8">"Nation Voted Dry". <i id="mwCEA">The New York Times</i>. January 17, 1919. pp.<span id="mwCEE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>1, 4.</cite><span about="#mwt113" class="Z3988" id="mwCEI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Nation+Voted+Dry&amp;rft.pages=1%2C+4&amp;rft.date=1919-01-17&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+16"></span></span>