In a triumph for freedom of the press, newspaperman John Peter Zenger was acquitted of the charge of seditious libel –
George Washington became a Master Mason –
What is now Prince Edward Island became separate from Nova Scotia –
The Saturday Evening Post was published for the first time as a weekly newspaper –
Aurora visible in much of the United States –
Thomas Stevens was the first to bicycle across the United States, leaving San Francisco on April 22 and arriving on this day in Boston to complete his transcontinental trip. –
The family of Lizzie Borden was found murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts –
Canada entered WWI –
The Gestapo found Anne Frank –
Three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner) were found murdered outside Philadelphia, Mississippi –
Major geomagnetic storm –
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating the United States Department of Energy –
Phoenix Mars Lander launched, Cape Canaveral, Florida –
Weather
Spokane, Washington, reached a record high temperature of 108 degrees F –
