1790 – 1st President George Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address.
1835 – US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.
1902 – New York state assemblyman Francis G. Landon gets a bill passed to criminalize men turning around on a street and “looking at a woman the wrong way.”
1918 – Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol.
1925 – 1st all female state Supreme Court appointed, Texas.
1945 – “Youth for Christ” organizes.
1949 – “Make Mine Manhattan” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 performances.
1955 – WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting.
1962 – 21-year-old future Hall of Fame golfer Jack Nicklaus makes his first professional appearance; tied 50th in the Los Angeles Open.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares “War on Poverty”
1966 – The Beatles’ “We Can Work it Out” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks.
1972 – NCAA announces freshmen can play on teams starting in fall.
1975 – Judge John Sirica orders release of Watergate’s John W. Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
1982 – AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies.
1988 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas.
1991 – Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1998 – Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.
2008 – Joe Gibbs retires, for the second time, as head coach of the Washington Redskins.
2018 – College Football National Championship, Mercedes Benz Stadium, Atlanta #4 Alabama beats #3 Georgia, 26-23.
2021 – US Speaker Nancy Pelosi demands President Donald Trump resign or he will face a second impeachment, while also calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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