1835 – United States 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 the street and “looking at a woman in that way.”
1918 – Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol.
1929 – CBS radio network buys WABC in New York.
1937 – A state record minus-50 degrees in San Jacinto, Nevada.
1945 – University of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team sets an NCAA record by holding Arkansas State to six points in a 76-6 win.
1955 – Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 points.
1962 – 21-year-old future Hall of Fame golfer Jack Nicklaus makes his first professional appearance. He tied for 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 No. 1 and stays for 3 weeks.
1972 – NCAA announces freshmen can play on teams starting in the fall.
1975 – Judge John Sirica orders release of Watergate’s John Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
1984 – NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams.
1987 – Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for first time (2,002.25).
1991 – Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 – For the first time in 25 years no one is elected to the 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 – US record for cost of natural disasters announced as $306 billion in 2017.
2021 – Twitter bans President Donald Trump permanently “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
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