1898:	Lieutenants Jarvis and Bertholf and Surgeon Call of the USRC Bear reach Point Barrow after a 2000 mile "mush" from Nunivak Island starting December 17, 1897, driving reindeer as food for 97 starving whalers caught in Arctic ice.
1938:	By an Executive Order of this date, President Roosevelt enlarged substantially the number of "personnel in the Lighthouse Service who are subject to the principle of the civil service," which allowed advancement in the Service solely on individual merit.
1985:	The Nantucket I was decommissioned, ending 164 years of lightship service.