1704 Boston News-Letter, first successful newspaper in US, established
1731 Daniel Defoe English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1833 Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, OH and George Dulty of Wheeling, WV got together to patent the soda fountain.
1833 Patent granted for first soda fountain
1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1866 Victoria BC is connected to British Columbia mainland via cable and telegraph.
1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1867 In Manhattan, Kansas a 5.1 quake is the largest historical earthquake in Kansas.
1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1888 Eastman Kodak forms
1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897 The first journalist to be named White House news reporter was William Price, who began working the prestigious beat for the "Washington Star" this day.
1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the first to travel across the US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1915 Lt. Edward Donald Bellew (Cdn. 7th Cdn Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium
1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks
1915 Sgt-Major Frederick William Hall Cdn. (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Ypres, Belgium
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1929 A non-stop England to India flight takes-off
