Irish poet Dylan Thomas was born on this day in 1914. He died at age 39, of acute alcohol poisoning. He once wrote:

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

Here's looking at you, later

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded on this day in 1910.

"I drink to make other people interesting." -- George Jean Nathan.

We'll drink to that

Prohibition was repealed on this date in 1933.

"Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." -- George Bernard Shaw.