Performer Signor Guillermo Farini’s stilts got caught as he walked the rapids above Niagara Falls –
Thomas Edison received a patent for his mimeograph (an early paper copying machine) –
U.S. patent #1,000,000 issued for an improved vehicle tire –
Canada’s Hundred Days began, WWI –
The German airship Graf Zeppelin began an around-the-world flight –
Florence Chadwick swam English Channel in 13 hours 20 minutes –
The Glasgow to London mail train was stopped at Sears Crossing, and robbed of over two-and-a-half million pounds. The incident became known as The Great Train Robbery –
President Richard Nixon announced his resignation –
Garfield’s sidekick, Odie, made his comic strip debut –
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor –
First red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus) ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere spotted at Katama Airfield, Edgartown (Martha’s Vineyard), Massachusetts, by E. Vernon Laux –
