1835 — Arkansas elected its first delegates to a state constitutional convention on this day to draft a state constitution in preparation for seeking statehood.
1957 — Sidney Moncrief, who starred on the University of Arkansas basketball team before competing for the Milwaukee Bucks, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on this day.
1970 — William Kunstler, the attorney who defended the Chicago Eight, and Jim Guy Tucker, the newly elected prosecuting attorney in Little Rock, debated on this day the merits of using violence to force social change. The two presented their opinions at the University of Arkansas before a crowd of about 1,500 people. Tucker defended the current system of government, and Kunstler condemned it.