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

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

1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1165 Imprinetta

1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1193 Africa

1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1862 Apollo

1934 Laurens Hammond announced the development of the pipeless organ

1944 Capture of Madang, New Guinea

1944 First Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"

1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates

1945 A new commissioner of baseball was named. He was Albert B.’ Happy’ Chandler.

1949 Dick Powell starred in " Richard Diamond, Private Detective" on NBC radio.

1951 Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; suffer 10 dead, 23 wounded.

1952 First shipment of oil from Alberta arrives in Ontario by pipeline and lake freighter, and they still do not like the price

1952 Raymond Burr made his TV acting debut on the " Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, " The Tiger"

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