1789:	Twelve lighthouses accepted from states by Act of Congress.
1789:	An Act of Congress (1 Stat. L., 53), only the ninth law passed by the newly-created Congress of the United States and the first one to make any provisions for public work, created the Lighthouse Establishment as an administrative unit of the Federal Government, when it accepted title to, and joined jurisdiction over, the lighthouses then in existence, and provided that "the necessary support, maintenance and repairs of ‘all lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers erected, placed, or sunk before the passing of this act, at the entrance of, or within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States, for rendering the navigation thereof easy and safe, shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the United States."
1882:	An Act of Congress (22 Stat. L., 301, 309) required all parties owning, occupying, or operating bridges over any navigable river to maintain at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, throughout the year, such lights as may be required by the Lighthouse Service.
1927:	Rumrunners kill a Treasury agent and two crewmembers of CG-249.  One of the killers was later convicted of murder and hanged at the Coast Guard station at Bahia Mar, FL.
1939:	"Suitable observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Lighthouse Service was called for by a joint resolution of Congress, signed by the President on May 15, which was known as Public Resolution Number 16.  By this resolution the week of August 7, 1939, was designated lighthouse week."
1942:	Landings at Tulagi and Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.