Kentucky is off to a 1-5 start in the 2020-21 college basketball season. It’s the worst start to a Kentucky basketball season since 1926-27. What was happening 94 years ago?
— The 48 United States of America celebrated the nation’s 150th birthday. Alaska and Hawaii would not become states for 33 more years.
— Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States. The only President ever born on Independence Day, the Republican took over the country in 1923 when Warren G. Harding unexpectedly died of a heart attack. He was elected to the presidency in 1924 before falling to Herbert Hoover four years later.