England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I.

1915

America’s first official transcontinental telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell, who was in New York, spoke to his former assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in San Francisco, over a line set up by American Telephone & Telegraph.

1945

Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first community to add fluoride to its public water supply.

1993

Sears announced that it would no longer publish its famous century-old catalog.