1938New York passed a law making a syphilis test mandatory to obtain a marriage license. After the law went into effect, marriages in the Empire State dropped 41 percent. Many states at the time required marriage applicants to be tested for venereal diseases and genetic disorders. The only state that still has such a law is Montana, and there’s currently a bill in the Helena statehouse to abolish it.1992Financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced to nine years in prison for swindling investors after his savings and …