1812:	War declared against Great Britain.
1878:	Life-Saving Service created by Act of Congress.
1903:	Alaska’s first coastal lighthouse, Scotch Cap Lighthouse, located near the west end of Unimak Island on the Pacific side of Unimak Pass, the main passage through the Aleutian Islands into the Bering Sea, was lit.
1930:	An Act of Congress provided "for the transfer of the old lighthouse at Cape Henry, Va., to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities."
1938:	The first low power, unattended "secondary" radio aid to navigation was established at St. Ignace, MI.