This week In National Press Club history

March 2, 1933: President Roosevelt signs the Twenty-first Amendment repealing Prohibition. The National Press Club bar is the first to reopen in the District of Columbia and is granted Liquor License #1.

March 3, 1971: Twenty-four women become the first female members of the National Press Club.

March 4, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson unexpectedly announces at a Women’s National Press Club WNPC)dinner the appointment of 10 women to major positions in his new administration, two of then WNPC members. It’s front-page news on television and in the press.

March 6, 1914: The fast-growing National Press Club makes its third move in five years to more spacious quarters on the top floor of the brand-new Riggs building at the corner of Fifteenth and G Streets NW.

March 8, 2003: Actress Angelina Jolie, in her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Relief Agency, creates a media feeding frenzy at the National Press Club. She is one of many Hollywood stars to appear at the Club speaking on behalf of important issues both domestic and global, including Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney, Robert Redford, and Celeste Holm.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, whose goal is to preserve and revitalize the Club’s century-plus history with lobby displays, events, panel discussions and an ongoing oral history project.

For more information about the Committee, or to join it, contact Chair Gilbert Klein at [email protected].