LOOKING BACK

27 B.C.: Caesar Augustus was declared the first emperor of the Roman Empire by the Senate.

1547: Ivan IV of Russia (popularly known as “Ivan the Terrible”) was crowned Czar.

1920: Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, one year to the day after its ratification. (It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.)