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
