1876:	Nuova Ottavia, an Italian Ship, grounded off the Jones Hill North Carolina Life-Saving Station.  The rescue resulted in the loss of seven USLSS surfmen, the first since the service started with paid crews in 1870.  Among the dead was African-American Surfman, Lewis White.
1902:	The first regular light stations in Alaska were established at Southeast Five Finger Island and at Sentinel Island.  Both on the main inside passage between Wrangell Strait and Skagway.
1905:	The first regular light stations in Alaska were established.
1927:	A system of broadcasting weather reports by radio on four lightships on the Pacific Coast was put into effect.
1933:	In the interest of administrative economy and efficiency, the 13th and 14th Lighthouse Districts were consolidated with the 15th Lighthouse District.  Also, the aids to navigation on the entire Mississippi River system were placed in charge of a civilian lighthouse engineer as superintendent.  This relieved the Army engineers detailed for that duty.  The offices at Rock Island, IL and Cincinnati, OH were discontinued and all the river work was placed under a single office at St. Louis, MO.