Things that happened on Dec. 18 that you never had to memorize in school:
1865: Official ratification of 13th Amendment; legal slavery abolished in U.S.
1917: Prohibition begins.
1922: Nelly Roussel dies. Free thinker, anarchist, feminist. She gave talks throughout France, claiming complete independence for women, founded on new relationships between the sexes.
1922: In Turin, Italy, fascists assassinate 22 workmen, socialists, communists, and anarchists. The anarchist Pietro Ferrero, secretary of the trade union of metallurgists and organizer of the Councilist movement in the factories, is attached to a truck and dragged to his death in the street.