1950 — Washington County Hospital opened for business on this day with 50 beds.
1959 — Donna Sue Needham, a former University of Arkansas student, appeared on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Show on this day. The show was broadcast on ABC-TV.
1987 — Two physics professors at the University of Arkansas, Zhengzhi Sheng and Allen Hermann, announced on this day that they and graduate students had manufactured a new material that set the world record high temperature for a superconducting material.