1926:	The first radio- beacon established in Alaska, at Cape Spencer, was placed in commission.
1949:	US Coast Guardsmen from Point Allerton and Boston Lifeboat Stations figured prominently in one of the largest res cue operations in the history of Boston Harbor Mass.  when they helped in removing 690 persons from the excursion steamer Nantasket, which had go a round in a thick fog off Peddock’s Island.