1790 – 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
1835 – US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.
1889 – Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine.
1902 – New York state assemblyman Francis G. Landon gets a bill passed to criminalize me turning around on a street and “looking at a woman in that way”
1912 – Chiefs, representatives of people’s and church organizations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms.
1918 – Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol.
1929 – CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC.
1945 – University of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team sets NCAA record by holding Arkansas State to 6 points in a 75-6 win.
1949 – “Make Mine Manhattan” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 429 performances.
1954 – Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, “Casual Love” & “I’ll Never Stand in Your Way”
1955 – Georgia Tech ends Kentucky’s 130-game home basketball win streak.
1956 – Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Hound Dog” single goes #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
1962 – 21-year-old future Hall of Fame golfer Jack Nicklaus makes his first professional appearance; tied 50th in Los Angles Open.
1966 – The Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” single goes #1 & stays for 3 weeks.
1972 – NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall.
1982 – AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies.
1987 – Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2002.25)
1988 – Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-285 Advanced Scientific Calculator.
1993 – Michael Jordan’s game-high 35 points leads Chicago to 120-95 win over Milwaukee; gives him exactly 20,000 points in 620th game of his NBA career; 2nd fastest to reach milestone after Wilt Chamberlain (499).
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2018 – US record year for cost of natural disasters announced – $306 billion in 2017.
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