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The United States Military Academy at West Point is founded by Congress.

Boston Bruin Bobby Orr becomes the first defenseman to score 100 points in a season.

The FBI institutes the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.

Eric Clapton leaves the Yardbirds because the band moved toward pop.

The New York Highlanders (later the Yankees) join baseball's American League.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published.

Engineer Robert Kearns, inventor of an intermittent windshield wiper design, is born.

The Siege of Pensacola begins as a Spanish naval force lands in Florida.

MTV airs the first episode of the animated series "Beavis and Butthead".

The Soviet Union denies any knowledge of atomic spy Klaus Fuchs.

Major William Malcolm is ordered to dismantle the Sandy Hook lighthouse.

The Hula-Hoop, a massive toy fad, is patented by Arthur "Spud" Melin.

The Hula-Hoop, a massive toy fad, is patented by Arthur "Spud" Melin.

1952: Ernest Hemingway completes his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Old Man and the Sea".

1863: Congress passes a conscription act, producing the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens.