On this day :

1935 First canned beer goes on sale, 1781 Light Horse and Swamp Fox raid Georgetown South Carolina, 1871 Albert Erskine Studebaker chief is born, 1865 Confederate Congress to resume prisoner exchanges, 1980 US announces military equipment sales to China, 1956 Emmett Till murderers make magazine confession, 1939 Chile suffers killer quake, 1908 Boy Scouts movement begins, 1965 Winston Churchill dies, 1972 Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam, 2006 Walt Disney announces 74 billion purchase of Pixar, 1862 Edith Wharton is born, 1967 Aretha Franklins career is reborn, 1848 Gold discovered at Sutters Creek, 1970 Nixon honors Eugene Ormandy, 1981 Mike Bossy scores 50th goal in 50 NHL games, 1966 Operation MasherWhite WingThang Phong II launched, 1973 Truce is expected in Laos and Cambodia, 1915 British and German navies battle at the Dogger Bank, 1943 Von Paulus to Hitler Let us surrender,