1980
1979
1973 - this isn't right. I only know NSW & Qld, but in my lifetime there wasn't an Australia wide drinking age. I was born in 1952 and legally drinking in 1970 in NSW, aged 18. Qld was 21 at that time. My father was born 1921 and was also legally drinking at age 18 in NSW.
Early 1970s.
September 10 1989
Prior to 1972 the minimum drinking age was 21 in Michigan. Michigan lowered the minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 in 1972, raised it from 18 to 19 in 1978, and raised it from 19 to 21 in 1978.
1986 and that was for the entire United States.
After the end of prohibition the minimum drinking age in New York was 18. New York State raised its minimum drinking age from 18 to 19 years in 1982 and raised it from 19 to 21 years on December 1, 1985.
The legal drinking age in the Cayman Islands is 18.
The drinking age in Ontario, Canada, was changed from 21 to 18 in 1971. This change was part of a broader trend during the 1970s where several provinces in Canada lowered their legal drinking ages. However, Ontario raised the minimum drinking age back to 19 in 1985, where it remains today.
The drinking age in Belize is 18 , however in Hunduras there is no "legal drinking age" :)
The legal drinking age in Nicaragua is 18
The legal drinking age in Vanuatu is 18