This Week in History
1754 First cartoon appeared in an American newspaper (by Benjamin Franklin in his Pennsylvania Gazette)
1840 First postage stamps issued (in England)
1884 Harry Truman was born
1926 Lt Commander Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett made first flight over North Pole
1936 Italy annexed Ethiopia
1944 First eye bank opened (at New York Hospital)
1945 Nazis surrendered to General Eisenhower